Sunday, January 25, 2009

Anything you can do, they can't do at all

I've been talking to a few colleges and friends, and this topic keeps popping up "Things that are easy to accomplish for some, and outrageously difficult for others". First and foremost I must say to my noOb, I am so proud of you and it touches my heart that you accredit me to your success. Anyways, in a conversation with my teacher he said "People like art, not neccesarily because it's good, but because unlike like us, they do not have the skills to recreat it." Even in music the same applies. People are impressed and love music because they can't play it (and it's pleasing...sometimes).
This struck intense thought into my head of past things I just couldn't understand. Like, how many times have you seen some kid driving a car for the first time and all of their friends that dont drive are just amazed, simply blown away. But then an older person would think "this must be a new driver" critiquing their driving. Or a young teenager draws a picture and showd it to their friends and they think it's the most amazing thing they've seen. But when they show it to an accomplished artist they get a simple "cool" or a forced "this is good". Some kid that's been playing guitar for a year can play a song, and people that arent musicians are just blown away. But if a tenured musician or just an overall better guitarist walks by, they wont even turn their heads to acknowledge them.
But somebody may ask, why is that? Is it just because they're rude and stuck-up? The answer is no. People are impressed by what they can't do. If that same guitarist walked by the likes of Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, BB King, Eric Clapton Yngwie Malmsteen and other guitar greats, they would stop and listen. Not just because they are good, but because they can accomplish something they can't. If that artist went to the Getty, and saw paints by Michealangelo and other art greats, they pause and gaze in amazement. Not because they are good, but because they cannot accomplish that. If a chef eats something Wolfgang Puk cooked, they're blown away, because they can't accomplish the quality of cooking that he can. A bodybuilder can walk into the gym and see a guy whole lifts more then him and is blown away and already formulated a list of questions. Why? Because that person is on a level that he has yet to reach.
SO, I now see that, some people arent impressed by certain things, not because they don't like it, but because they can do it. So, next time I hear another artist say "impressive" or a musician say "WOW, that sounds sick" I'm gonna take that to heart.

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