Learn like a baby - Just dive in and try it
Summary
- Babies never bother with formal rules, they just try it and they are learning machines.
Details
- When learning a language, learn like a baby - start with words and use them immediately
- Same applies to music - use what you know, learn a song that you can play simply. You can learn the rules later
References
Quotes
Improv masters learn like babies: dive in and imitate and improvise first, learn the formal rules later. “At the beginning, your mom didn’t give you a book and say, ‘This is a noun, this is a pronoun, this is a dangling participle,’” Cecchini told me. “You acquired the sound first. And then you acquire the grammar later
It’s easier for a jazz musician to learn to play classical literature than for a classical player to learn how to play jazz,” he said. “The jazz musician is a creative artist, the classical musician is a re-creative artist."
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- Learning skills takes time
- Learning Machine - Charlie Munger
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- When in doubt, try it out
- Learning something new is good for your brain
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- How to learn a skill
- Jesus learned by watching Jehovah
- How to learn - Pablo Picasso