Making an honest effort to be bad at something is the best way to gain new skills

Tai Arima
Tai Arima
Nov 2 · 7 min read

Our culture has given us an obsession with producing a masterpiece or performing well even if it is our first time doing something. If we write a few stories or paint a few paintings and don’t think any of them were good, we give up. “I guess I’m not meant to be a painter,” you say to yourself. This is unfortunate, since everyone who starts something for the first time is bad at it.

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