You never know what you might end up getting good at.
Because getting good begets getting good.
There’s the thing you set out to get good at but then there’s a bunch of things that come along with it that you had no idea about.
If an eighteen year old kid gets hired to play piano at a piano bar a few days a week, the kid thinks it’s a decent pay check and a chance to get good at playing piano in public. But all of us who did something like that when we were eighteen know you’ll end up getting good at a lot more than that.
Showing up on time, selling the tip jar, handling drunk people, building a setlist, taking requests, playing to an empty room, playing to a packed room, knowing when and how ‘good enough’ applies to a song, squeezing excitement out of boring, squeezing variance out of repetition, and the list goes on…
Getting good at something spills over into so much more.
