There's a bar in the piece
you always rush.
You play the easy run in,
stumble the hard part,
and keep going
so you don't have to feel it.
Every repetition
practices the stumble.
You're not getting better.
You're rehearsing the mistake
with great dedication.
The hard bar
is the only bar
that matters.
So stop the song.
Take the two beats
you keep breaking.
Play them slow.
Play them ugly.
Play them alone,
until they're not scary.
Nobody improves
by doing the parts
they're already good at.
That just feels productive.
The tape sounds nice.
Nothing changes.
Growth lives
in the uncomfortable measure,
the one your hands avoid,
the one you'd rather
smear past.
Slow is not
the enemy of fast.
Slow is how fast
gets built.
Isolate the hard thing.
Face the bar you skip.
The song gets easy
only after
its hardest part does.
– Serguey Asael Shinder
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