On the Importance of Realistic Goal-Setting

[mr_bad_example]

Old Goal: Learn to become a reasonably competent guitar player with a repertoire of entertaining songs.

New, Realistic Goal: Play a C chord without wanting to throw up from the pain of fretting the B string.

Comments

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

You kind of wonder how this whole stringed instrument business has managed to go on for as long as it has, given the viciousness of the strings.

[mr-bad-example.livejournal.com]

Explains why Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, and Robert Cray had the blues.