I was never allowed to make do with 'trying,' [Damian shrugged.] There had to be results. Always results, to demonstrate what I had learned.
['Results' could be 'ah, you survived the night. Now tune your violin.']
It is not a switch. It is a constant effort, applied to everything that you do, every hour of the day or night. If you do not want to exert your will that way, you fail.
Which is why wanting to learn it matters more than it being... fun.
[The last word was said coldly. He still didn't understand it, and was way past tired with most people that obsessed with it that they brought it up for the oddest reasons. Like learning control? Was there even anything in common at all?]
Your motivation can originate with somebody else, but if you do not find some of your own, trying is all you will have. No results.
Yes good.
['Results' could be 'ah, you survived the night. Now tune your violin.']
It is not a switch. It is a constant effort, applied to everything that you do, every hour of the day or night. If you do not want to exert your will that way, you fail.
Which is why wanting to learn it matters more than it being... fun.
[The last word was said coldly. He still didn't understand it, and was way past tired with most people that obsessed with it that they brought it up for the oddest reasons. Like learning control? Was there even anything in common at all?]
Your motivation can originate with somebody else, but if you do not find some of your own, trying is all you will have. No results.