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a PCQ-QCP: Learn a New Skill

March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

[-practices, tips-]

PCQ - QCP / a quick creative practice
a Quick Creative Practice
~simple practices have profound impacts~
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Need Inspiration? Learn something new

Choose either a fairly simple skill – for example, how to do stencilling or beginning knitting – or – choose a skill that will take time and effort and one that you have, therefore, been putting off your whole life – like playing an instrument or learning a language. Either way, you’ll reap unforeseen benefits far beyond what you’re learning.

Question: “Do you know how old I’ll be by the time I learn to play the piano?”

Answer: “The same age you’ll be if you don’t learn to play the piano.”

Start now. Your efforts will be rewarded.

Learning something new inspires because:

  • * it ignites the mind, firing up sluggish brain cells

  • * new skill sets have bearing on what we already know in ways we can’t predict – for example, working with sumptuous wool yarn might provide a new connection to painting or composing

  • * it reminds us that we are creative beings capable of continual evolution.
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Originally published in the July 2005 issue of The Practically Creative Quarterly, theme: space and spaces

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also posted in: Creative un-Blockers , Inspiration , Motivation , PCQ-QCP - quick tips , Practice & Practices , Self-evolution , The Original PCQ, 05-06


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