Driss-A-Blog

I was in a Learning Annex class last week about learning the piano. I didn't get much out of it past a book and the opportunity to play a bit. But I was taking it with two women, and the teacher asked us what musical background we had. I stated that I'd taught myself the guitar. The women were startled. “How did you do that?”

I shrugged, “Sheer force of will?”

I've been thinking about that answer ever since, and the more I think of it, the more profound it gets. And it really divides the world in two: those who understand how nearly everything yields before willpower, and those who can't.