You Thought Wrong... 🤯 (or did you?)

You ever met someone you thought had it all figured out, then hung around them long enough to spot every flaw? Yeah. Same goes for you. Same goes for me. Same goes for every player you've ever put up on a pedestal.

Most guitar players are stuck on what they don't know.

There's always another scale. Another technique. Another guy on YouTube who clearly came out of the womb shredding. So we tell ourselves a story...

"Something's being gate kept from me.

If I could just find the right skill, I'd finally sound like I want to sound."

Then we back it up with a second one.

"They figured it out... So can I. I don't need anyone else's lessons. I want to play like ME. Not some icon who already figured it out."

Both can be true. Both can also be the exact thing keeping you stuck.

Here's what I actually think:

You probably already know enough. You're probably way better than you give yourself credit for. And yeah, you can teach yourself to play in your own voice... even if your sense of melody is rough right now.

There's a hundred reasons you're right and the world is wrong.

But here's the part most people skip...

The world is going to keep pushing back on you. And honestly? It should.

The real SECRET isn't more knowledge.

It's different PERSPECTIVE.

So here's what's worth sitting with: Take some real time to consider this...

What's a playing-practice you haven't actually challenged in a long time?

[These could be limiting beliefs or current practice habits in general]

Examples:

I can't know every scale ever...

I mostly play without my pinky because it's not strong enough.

I can't create new stuff, so I just play songs I've heard before.

My fingers aren't fast enough.

I'll never learn how to play smooth or know where to play on the fretboard at all times, so I may as well just play whatever comes to mind (which is the same thing every time)

Drop it in the comments. Let's get dig into the old perspective and why it isn't working anymore.

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