Never Enough
You will never be enough for any of your dreams if you are waiting for the right time to get started, That’s just it. You keep hearing about rules, formulas and plans, design ways of thinking but non of it matters if your not willing to start doing it.
“theory’s cool, but theory with no practice ain’t shit.” ~ Fred Hampton1
Jimi Hendrix2
“I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix’s journey to becoming an iconic guitarist was largely self-directed and informal. He started his music journey explorations using a broom as a guitar, then got his first real instrument which was a one-string ukulele he found while helping his father.
When he was 15 he got his first acoustic guitar for $5, and was dedicated to practicing for hours daily. He learned primarily by ear, picking up riffs and songs from blues records and local musicians, jamming with friends and learning from more experienced guitarists like Billy Davis3, whom he met at a concert.
He never took formal lessons or even learned to read music. He also had a unique approach which includes playing a right-handed guitar upside down due to being left-handed, which contributed to his distinctive sound.
this is sound like a mini self help blog with case studies and you need to do it but hear me out, he never waited for the right time or waited to be enough, he just did it. One of my favorite hendrix album and which i think the whole world agrees with me aswell is Electric Ladyland4, do check it out.
we could go on listing much more people who just went at it and did their thing without overthinking or over-planning it, you want to take pictures take your camera and go out the color theory and everything else will come after, you want to write pick up an old note book and just let the ideas flow, you want to run then run. what ever it is that you want to do, don’t overthink it, the understanding and experience will come along, so just go at it. if not you then who? if not now then when?