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Originally Posted by Perna
I think, in a sense, it is about intention; you probably have never worked on a project of your own, start to completion. It takes practice, like anything else, to pick something to do and actually work on it and do it. Nothing happens in one's head, one has to actually do the boring, mundane, day-to-day stuff for a long time, practice the piano scales day after day before one can play the piano; one has to actually try the lame-sounding stuff instead of just saying, "that's lame" without even trying them to know. You can't know what you haven't experienced, haven't tried; the map is not the territory.
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Ha, I really appreciate your metaphor. I am a musician and I get up at 7am nearly every day to warm up and practice my scales before morning rehearsal. However, when I was younger, I didn't understand why playing scales was important. I didn't understand why playing the lame stuff helped me grow as a player until my freshmen year of college when my professor forced me to do it. Slowly, I started noticing results and it eventually got less and less lame.
I don't know if therapy works like that or not. I can see where it might. However, I've never once been scared to improve musically and I don't know if I'm convinced I can improve psychologically at baseline. I think that kinda makes it a bit of a game changer.