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When age makes beginner status feel shameful

I bought a guitar two years ago and it sits in the corner judging me because I am too old to be bad at something

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Adult expectations of competence conflict with the necessary awkwardness of learning, making inexperience feel like failure rather than natural process.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The fear of beginning?”

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