A much better approach (from a piano teacher, but it generalizes: Tags like "stupid," "bad at ____", "sloppy," and so on, are ways of saying "You're performing

A much better approach (from a piano teacher, but it generalizes: Tags like "stupid," "bad at ____", "sloppy," and so on, are ways of saying "You're performing badly and I don't know why." Once you move it to "you're performing badly because you have the wrong fingerings," ... it's no longer a vague personal failing but a causal necessity. Anyone who never understood limits will flunk calculus. It's not you, it's the bug. http://celandine13.livejournal.com/33599.html http://celandine13.livejournal.com/33599.html