Can you enjoy it knowing that you suck?

[fascination]

I have seen and heard people at the highest levels of dance and people who are newer than myself choose to enjoy the process or choose to be miserable over absence of perfection....there is always going to be someone who is better and someone who is worse....I think most of us who stick with it do so by learning that the "I suck attitude" while unavoidable at times, is the enemy of progress...so it is best to lose it as quickly as possible after feeling it...and if you read my posts from yesterday, you know I am practicing what I preach...OVER IT

 

[diputs]

There is a book called, "Finding Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. I believe he deals with the points you are talking about.

http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Articles/Flowexp/start.htm

This website explaines it better than I can, but knowing that most people will skip the link, here is the idea.

When the challenge is high, but the skills are low, this causes anxiety. When the skills are high, but the challenge is low, this creates boredom. When the skills are high and the challenges are high, this creates "flow" or the optimum experience.

This is a simple version of a more complex chart.

 

[alemana]

i got that book after reading aabout it here - it's useful.

 

[saludas]

The book and the concepts in it are AWESOME. Thanks so much for posting this...