{"id":180052,"date":"2021-01-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/?p=180052"},"modified":"2024-06-20T00:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T07:44:36","slug":"tq-serena-williams-champion-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarshed.com\/tq-serena-williams-champion-recover\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams on Resiliency and Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tuesday Quotes are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. Find more here<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA champion is defined not by their wins, but by how many times they recover when they fall.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serena Williams<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Serena Williams is a public tennis figure. She has a team of coaches, managers, and trainers. She has sponsors and a schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while she has up days and down days like everyone else, it would be difficult for her to quit tennis altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what about us, sitting alone in our living rooms with guitar in lap? Most likely we could stop practicing and no one would notice. No one much cares if we play our scales today or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guitar practice, being a solo affair, can wither on the vine without fanfare. We risk no public embarrassment. We lose no face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning guitar, we\u2019re accountable only to ourselves. Our commitment is our own. Our successes and failures are largely our own (unless we choose to share them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So our relationship to ourselves affects whether we continue to grow and improve<\/a> on guitar, or quit. When life gets busy, when we become sick or injured and have to take a break from practice, what then?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practice is easy when we\u2019re excited. We coast along smoothly once we\u2019ve built up momentum. Velocity propels us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the real challenge begins when things get hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the skills we learn as musicians is to restart after a break<\/a>. It\u2019s to get up after we fall. It\u2019s to overcome inertia and push-start our practice from a stand-still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is something we will do over and over. It\u2019s rarely easy. It\u2019s a practice in itself. And this is one of the most important and crucial techniques we learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once we\u2019ve managed to touch the strings for a few days, however briefly<\/a>, momentum returns. We once again feel pulled forward, instead of having to push.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we wait for the pull (inspiration, attraction, motivation), it may not come. It rarely does of its own accord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when we pick up the guitar each day whether we feel like it or not, momentum builds. Within a few days, we begin to feel inspired and motivated<\/a>. These feelings may not stay, but at least we know how to regenerate them when they wane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning to play guitar is actually learning how to practice guitar. And a large part of that is simply showing up and doing the work<\/a>\u2013day after day, without question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday Quotes are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. Find more here. Enjoy! \u201cA champion is defined not by their wins, but by how many times they recover when they fall.\u201d Serena Williams Serena Williams is a public tennis figure. She has a team of coaches, managers, and trainers. She has sponsors and a … <\/p>\n

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