Wobbly Python

this was my whole life as a piano teacher too lmao

you have to practice your songs, kid.
"yeah okay, whatever" (doesn't practice)
(later on I play a song for them)
"wow how do you play so good??"
I practice. 😐
(surprised Pikachu face)

How is it so hard to teach people this 😭 you could be great too! If you wanted it enough to work at it!

I think it's because they don't know how and what to practice, mainly. So if in these moments we had a tiny thing to whip out and show them — here's something very small you can get better at today, and here's how to think about improving it — they'd be willing to give it a shot without immediately writing themselves off as 'bad at art'

"talented" is honestly one of my least favorite words regarding creating or doing anything