Talk about a skill that takes a long time to learn

• What is the skill

• Why does it take a long time to learn

• Where/How can you learn it

• How do you feel about learning this skill

When I was 18 years old, I think, I was watching a show in which Atif Aslam was invited as a Guest, and in that episode, he was requested to sing a song so he took his guitar and played a song called “Dooree”. That song is also my favourite song. What an emotional experience! After I heard that, I knew I wanted to be able to take an acoustic guitar, and produce that kind of magic through the instrument. Also, after hearing him, I realized that I must learn the greatest instrument of all time, the guitar!

Well after that, I saved up some money and purchased an acoustic guitar. As soon as I hit the Low E string on the guitar and thought, WOW this is cool, I am a guitar player!

I soon began to take private lessons from a small music store. where I learned my first song. I practised every day after college until I could at least change through some open chords. I remember thinking, “If I only could change from G to C and D then I would be awesome!” Those chord changes seemed almost impossible.

During my lessons at the music store, I had been given this thing called the Pentatonic scale to practice, and man was it hard. I did practice my chords and the scale for about an hour every day after college.  I kept thinking that someday I might actually be able to play a song in front of someone, but that day seemed so far away.

Eventually, I learned how to play some chords and a couple of easy lead riffs.  I thought I was awesome now! So I asked my friend to come over and check out what I had learned. He arrived and I sat down and proceeded to play the intro of one of the Atif Aslam Songs. I knew I was awesome!   When I had finished I asked him if he knew what song that was, he replied: “Uh, I have no idea.” I said, “You know, the song Dooree.”  He was like, “I don’t think what you played sounded like that, but yeah it sounds good.” with a smirk.  I knew that he was not impressed.  Oh well, I guess I needed more practice.

I was a little disappointed with my guitar playing skills for a long time but I kept on playing every day for hours. And one day when I was playing my guitar in my room, I was totally lost in the music I was playing, after some time I witnessed all my family members my brother, sister, and my mother were sitting next to me and they were also lost to my music which I was creating through my guitar. when I stopped playing they all requested me to keep on playing and appreciated me a lot. from that day onwards I played in my house functions and parties and everyone likes my music.

it was a really hard time for me to learn guitar but in the end, all my hard work and putting lots of efforts day by day helped me to learn that skill and taught me that learning new things and mastering takes lots of patience and perseverance.

Follow ups:

1. What type of skills may take a long time to learn?
Writing skills like calligraphy take a long time to be learnt. It is a Chinese art that needs practice and meticulous training and observation. As a matter of fact, any skill needs training and patience. In most of the skills, some dexterity is required so to achieve that proficiency one may require training for a long time

2. Why would people spend a lot of time learning one skill?
Some people are very passionate about your hobbies and they want to learn it to the levels of perfection. So people spend a lot of time learning that kind of skills that they enjoy doing. On the contrary, there are certain skills where children do not have an aptitude for But there still useful to be learnt so that it longer learning that skill.

3. Do people feel happy after they have learned a new skill?
Yes, whenever you create something there is a sense of achievement and you feel happy about it. So most of the people do feel happy when they learn a new skill. Simple procedures like cooking, stitching, knitting make provide immense happiness when they tried for the first time

4. Why are some people unwilling to learn new skills?
Sometimes people are unwilling to learn new skills because this fear did I go wrong. Fear of failure should not be a hurdle to create something new. Better to have tried and failed than not tried at all. Sometimes people face a lot of criticism at work or some children face a lot of Criticism at school so they fear to try something new.

5. Do you think it takes a long time to learn a language?
Ability to learn a language may vary from person to person Some individuals learn languages very fast as they are very good at the uptake of new vocabulary, while other people might face difficulty learning new words. To gain the superficial knowledge of any language is not difficult but to learn it fluently takes a long time.