Movement Without Counsel Results in Tight Squeeze
We folk with ADHD sometimes plow quickly into action before taking the time to ask advice. With simple things this is often fine. But with complicated things?
From the Accordion FAQ
Q: How likely am I to pick up bad habits by teaching myself?
A: A friend of mine’s son taught himself to play concertina. One day he noticed that everyone else was playing theirs upside down relative to the way he was doing it. Needless to say, the rest of the world was not wrong. Please make sure that you at least know which side is for the right hand vs. the left hand.
– Accordion FAQ compiled by Alan Polivka (1993)
June 3rd, 2009 09:41
the rest of the world may not have been wrong – but the self-taught concertina player may not have been wrong, either. it’s like the proverb of the guy who visits the guru and is given a mantra to work on and then finds out he was given the wrong way of pronouncing it. so, the student leaves the guru, thinking that the guru doesn’t know what he is talking about.
then, as the student is sailing away on his boat from the guru’s island, the guru comes walking on the water (or floating in the air over a road, depending on the telling) and says something like, “oh, yes, one more thing, i think i gave you the wrong pronounication for the mantra… it goes more like this…..”….