Nothing sharpens your perspective like challenges.
Take Jeff Healey. No one in their right mind would play a guitar the way he plays the guitar. It’s not coorect, and guitars weren’t meant to be played the way he plays them, laying the body in his lap and fingering the fretboard from above.
But Jeff lost his sight when he was eight months old, and started playing guitar when he was three. The way he wanted to play it. Because he didn’t know any better. Because it made perfect sense to him.
The real story here isn’t that Jeff Healey overcame blindness to become a great guitar player. There are lots of blind guitar players. The story here is that his challenges are actually what made him unique. His playing style opened up options that those of us who play guitar in the “normal” way simply don’t have. His style got him noticed by Stevie Ray Vaughn and Albert Lee; gave him chances to play with Eric Clapton and George Harrison. Heck, he even got to be in the movie Roadhouse.
What challenges can you embrace rather than avoid? What things do you need to unlearn before you can really move on?
FYI, things really get good around the 3-minute mark on this video.
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