Posting over at Wordquill today!
Writing is one of my
passions. Another passion is teaching. Primarily, I teach piano and violin
lessons. Throughout the years, I have had students that were difficult to
teach. It was not because they didn’t have talent or ability—many of these
students had a great potential they could have reached. But they would struggle
in the same area for months—not because I didn’t give them solutions or didn’t
work with them through problems, but because they never applied the solutions
to themselves. They enjoyed where they were as a musician and didn’t really
aspire to be much more than where they were.
So why am I mentioning this
to a group of writers? Because recently, I have found myself exhibit the
tendencies that I’ve seen in my students: an unteachable spirit. This one thing
is powerful enough to keep us back from reaching our full potential, no matter
what subject we are trying to learn.
Lately, I have been pondering a few questions in my writing life.
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