It’s a great mantra for anyone learning anything new.
Slow. Down.
“If you can’t sing it slow, you can’t sing it fast,” my mentor would say.
But of course it’s true for everything from writing to cooking to teaching to learning. We start slow.
The unspoken corollary, and one I wish were spoken out loud more often, is this:
It won’t be slow forever.
Learning a new skill, you must start slow, but that doesn’t mean you’ll always be slow. The process of learning is, in part, a process of adding speed to the skill. I think that people often give up on skills they’re interested in because of the time it takes, initially, to accomplish anything. But it won’t be always be that slow.
Learning something new? Slow down, but understand that it won’t be slow forever.