The Thing Everyone Else Could Do
There's a thing your friends can all do that you can't — yet. Maybe it's riding without stabilisers, swimming a length, doing something on a skateboard, a certain move in a game. They picked it up, it seems, in about five minutes, and you're still wobbling and falling and getting nowhere. Watching them, a horrible thought creeps in: maybe I just can't. Maybe I'm the one who's bad at this. Maybe everyone else has something I don't. It would be so much easier to quietly give up and pretend you didn't care about it anyway. But you do care. And somewhere underneath the frustration is a quieter question: is it that you can't — or just that you can't yet?
Would you rather be naturally good at something straight away, or get good slowly through hard practice? Why?
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