I worry about discipline and follow through with my own history. And one of the reasons that I have DD5 in piano is to learn the discipline.
I hate and get distracted with the detail work of finishing something. I am so great with the concept, the ground work, investigating, but refining it, editing, and even organizing it in the final part is a problem. Since I wrote industry reports on Wall Street, this can be a big problem. And why I moved into trading. You do the work quickly, get it done and you move on.
But I do not want DD to have this problem. She loves to learn the notes of a piece and play it. Especially complicated pieces with fast notes. But she doesn't play it perfectly and the work to get the timing exactly right, the fingering, the accent of how the composer wants the piece played etc. That is a struggle. And I keep reminding her that this is why she takes piano to learn the lessons of how to do a project correctly, not just quick and move on.
I think it is too common a pattern to fall into for Visual spatial learners that like to understand the whole picture and how it works but detail work is left for the other guy. I hope I can train DD into a discipline of working on the details. Not easy. I know some kids love to just sit there and work on a project until it is perfect. Slow and steady. Hence the story of the tortoise and the hare.
Ren
