Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radiohead Space and a Thursday morning.

So I don't know if you are engaged at the moment in learning any particular kind of skill.

I know a lot of people this year especially I feel like more and more people are taking

up hobbies, taking up new activities in the absence of being able to do a lot of the things

that we were able to do pre-pandemic that during this time a lot of people are taking

up new things.

I was chatting to a friend of mine who has been learning to play the piano and he started

off just by learning with his son and you know over time he became more interested in

it and he's been doing it over the last sort of nine months or so.

He was doing it quite routinely and he was I think he was enjoying it actually.

And then he said he kind of hit a bit of a plateau where I don't know maybe he lost

interest maybe he just didn't feel so motivated so inspired and he was talking to a musician

who said look right now you're too focused on the technical aspect of it.

You're kind of in learning mode in skill mode you're trying to focus on getting better.

When you hit these plateaus like this it's actually really important to let go of that

and to focus more on the creative so focus more on the flow maybe even just play for yourself

not trying to play someone else's tune someone else's music just play your own music make

it up as you go along and in doing that in tapping into that sort of creative side of

things it allows us to sort of move past those plateaus and of course we'll have to come

back to the technical pit at some point but it allows us to continue on and kind of

talk about that from a training the mind point of view.

You know it's really important to have reliable authentic sort of knowledge and instructions

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