“Being ok with sucking at something while learning” is an extremely undervalued skill.
As is “being happy for people that are better than you”.
Super important for
- learning how to code
- learning a new language
- art, music, podcasting, cooking
- really everything.
Don’t forget to teach your kids these skills.
Also, demonstrate these behaviors.
Let your kids see you being bad at something and not giving up and staying positive.

@brianokken I feel this really hard right now. I'm trying to teach myself a new instrument and seeing the gap between what I'm capable of and what I *wish* I was capable of is very humbling.

It's at the point where I have to physically tell myself a few things, over and over:

1. I am allowed to suck
2. I am allowed to go at my own pace
3. No one is grading me on this

@cvasilevski the grading thing is big. I stressed about and hated history in school. But I love learning about it now, with no expectations of memorizing it.