{"id":48429,"date":"2019-02-05T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/?p=48429"},"modified":"2024-05-19T23:37:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T06:37:19","slug":"tq-kurt-vonnegut-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarshed.com\/tq-kurt-vonnegut-frustration\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vonnegut on Frustration in Guitar Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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\u201cLaughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning to do afterward.\u201d
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Kurt Vonnegut<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In our regular music practice, it\u2019s easy to fall into the quicksand of frustration.<\/p>\n

We think, \u201cI should have this mastered already!\u201d or \u201cWhy is this hard for me? Surely everyone else gets this with no trouble\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

So we feel frustrated, affronted, maybe even a little angry. We begin our inner grumbling and judging.<\/p>\n

But none of this does any good. Worse, it cuts us off from the resources<\/a> that would help us succeed.<\/p>\n

The problem is not in our abilities. And it\u2019s usually not in the material we\u2019re working on.<\/p>\n

The problem is most often our expectations. We expect that we should learn at certain rate. We expect that because we could do something yesterday we should be able to do it again today.<\/p>\n

We expect for habits to come easy, and musical memory<\/a> to die hard.<\/p>\n

But these aren\u2019t always true.<\/p>\n

If we\u2019re feeling fussy about some part of our work, we can first consider our expectations.<\/p>\n

Barry Schwartz once said, \u201cThe key to happiness is low expectations.\u201d True or not, low expectations can help us avoid frustration. We may even be pleasantly surprised when things go well.<\/p>\n

A primary ingredient for musical mastery is time. So one of our most important jobs is to keep motivated to pick up the instrument again tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Low, or at least realistic, expectations wind the clock so we keep on ticking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday Quotes are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. Enjoy! \u201cLaughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning to do afterward.\u201d Kurt Vonnegut In our regular music practice, it\u2019s easy to fall into the quicksand of frustration. We think, \u201cI should … <\/p>\n

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