Brad Stulberg

And you are going to make yourself vulnerable to looking stupid or to failing.

Once you get through that initial resistance, then I think that the satisfaction, which is a word I keep using because that's the big reward, the satisfaction of trying really hard, getting intimate with a craft, making progress is so great that it keeps you coming back.

But it's the initial resistance.

It's the, hey, like you said, I work a job

I'm an accountant at a big firm.

I don't really care about being excellent at that.

I think I'm good.

I'm well respected.

I pay the bills.

I pay rent.

But man, I haven't played guitar since I was in high school.

And it's going to be hard to pick it back up.

I'm not going to be as good.

It's like it's all of that that we just have to get over and throw ourselves into a craft.

Otherwise, our leisure time is just going to be filled with scrolling TikTok.

And that doesn't make for a very fulfilling life.