Re: THE WELL: For Real This Time...I'm an Open Book
Man, I'm starting to see some really cool and thought-provoking questions.
6 pages of well respected fun so far....glad to see this well thing is working.
What is the one question you are hoping to not get asked?
I agree: Everyone's been respectful, yet the questions have been fun and often challenging. Keep it up, guys!
If I tell you the one question I'm hoping not to be asked, someone surely will ask it. : private: Honestly, I can't think of anything I'm hoping
not to get asked.
Do you have any advice for us young guys about guitar? about life?
For guitar advice, I'd say start with the list of dos and don'ts I posted earlier in the thread. I'd add to that this item: Start slowly and build your technique from there. It's easier to avoid bad habits when you start than it is to develop and unlearn them later on.
As for advice about life, that's a little trickier. I think my biggest piece of advice to younger folks and kids is to develop a strong sense of compassion. Humans are social creatures, and by nature we can get a heck of a lot more done if we are respectful of others. When you find yourself at odds with someone else, try to find within yourself the reasons why you may be feeling angry, upset, sad, frustrated, etc. Put yourself in the other person's shoes, and don't be quick to judge. Everyone's got a story behind who they are, and if you pay attention and listen, you may just learn something from them and about yourself.
Don't take yourself too seriously. Life needs to be enjoyed, and while it's good to challenge and fend for yourself, it's also good to lay back and relax, realizing that you're not perfect. And no matter how others may appear,
nobody is perfect and
everybody struggles with something at some time in their lives.
Try not to take things too personally, and realize that as long as you are okay with you, and you're being respectful of others, criticism from others will be much easier to deal with. Laugh at yourself. I do stupid stuff all the time, and I have to just shake my head, laugh, learn from it and move forward.
Realize that logic and emotion are two different worlds. It's easy for you or me to say or think these things, but feeling them and putting them into action in our lives can be a real challenge. Don't beat yourself up if you don't get it right the first, second, or even tenth time. At some point, you will get it right.
Listen to more Black Sabbath. However much you're listening to already is not enough.
Hypothetically speaking, somebody on this forum comes up with an amazing design for a sdugf tattoo--would you get it?
I'd have to see the design first, but I've never had a tattoo, so it'd have to strike a very personal chord for me to want to have that inked on my body for all my days.
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