Childhood training

Do musical instruments really require “childhood training”? Is it too late to learn them after growing up?

First of all, learning art is not about selling paintings or playing music, competing, or performing.

Learning art is about cultivating one’s artistic cultivation and gaining deep insights into the two topics of quality and humanity, and to appreciate the beauty of the world, so that one can benefit from all aspects of oneself.

This benefit is not only about making more valuable and market-recognized decisions and outcomes, but also about being able to gain additional insights, inspiration, and experiences from the same experiences that people lacking this training would find difficult to obtain.

For example, for the same 90-minute movie, people with artistic cultivation, especially those with experience in artistic creation, will have much more feelings, inspiration, and even memories than those without this cultivation. Artistic cultivation is like a stronger hydraulic valve that can squeeze more oil out of the same raw material.

And because of this superior productivity, people will be less likely to suffer from net losses and fall into despair due to difficulties, thus not only gaining stronger vitality for themselves, but also greatly reducing the burden of support from the people around them, and even being able to frequently give back to others.

This is the true value of art and the true meaning of learning art. Those competitive, performing, and trading are all additional values of art, which are other secondary things that use art as a theme and a carrier. From the fundamental point of view, it is actually a business of agents, only the artists being managed are not outsourced, but are self-made and do not need to share accounts or be afraid of being fired.

People who are good at painting, calligraphy, poetry, playing the piano, playing ball, and playing chess are very likely to enter the realm of excellence in other fields.

In fact, it can be said that if you do not have an art to learn from to understand what elegance, simplicity, and abundance are, when you try to hard on those so-called hot industries alone, such as programming, finance, management, marketing, mechanical manufacturing, etc., you will often be twice the effort and half the result.

Therefore, the claim that “it is very important because it is not easy to draw better than others if you don’t practice from childhood” is a very narrow, even wrong, value judgment.

Without “childhood training” to learn art, you can not be a violinist, but you can still study relativity. It doesn’t matter at all.