I’ve had a revelation today…. As i was typing away on my keyboard while watching a pianist playing his keyboard on youtube, i thought:

“Hey! I can type on the keys of my keyboard as well as he can play the music keys of his piano! ”

So? We all can type well on our computer keyboard…. what’s the big big revelation?

The big revelation is… Practice makes perfect. Yes, typing on keyboard may be a skill that we often regard as “nothing”.
“It’s nothing… it’s just typing on the keyboard. i do that everyday…. day in… day out….in fact i’m doing it now as i’m writing this.” But it’s thing thats we do over and over again that makes as so good at it.

And then i thought…
“Hey! If I can type on the keys of my keyboard as well as he can play the music keys of his piano, then i can definately play the piano if i work towards that goal! ”

But of course, my interest wasn’t to master piano. It just means that, if i put my heart and soul to whatever i love and wants to achieve, i CAN DO IT. There’s no substitute for hard work. After 10 years, with some strokes of good luck and good timing, you might just become world-class. Who knows? You can make yourself into whatever you want to be…. you can even make yourself great. But great doesn’t comes easy.

Tiger Woods may be the youngest Masters champion at age 21, but he started playing golf at 3 years old and never stopped trying to improve.

Mozart began playing piano at 2 and would have accumalated tens of thousands of hours deliberate practice by the time he first played on stage.

It’s never too late to start.
The key word here is “deliberate practice”. Do it regularly, not sporadically. And never ever give up.

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1. Evie says:
   March 17th, 2007 at 12:05 pm

   YOU ARE RIGHT! People can only play piano because they practice. I taught my brother how to play 3 songs because he wanted to chase a girl. Hahaha. It’s really easy to get started, only difficult when you want to take things to a higher level.

   JIAYOU!

2. Ling says:
   March 17th, 2007 at 7:04 pm

   a guy playing the piano certainly does melts any girls heart…. hehe

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