Don't go to college for a music degree. That's stupid. You're also incredibly idealistic which means you have very little life experience outside of school. School is a fish tank. A university is just a bigger one with an actual opening from which life enters and exits but you'll never realize it until you become an academic, which you probably wouldn't want to be.No one cares if you are passionate or not. In reality, it's something people say but it has no substance whatsoever. It just sounds good to hear. I knew dozens of people who were passionate about piano but played poorly. Some of them are in doctoral programs. I am not passionate about playing at all; I just do it very well. Passion and competence are two very different things that only have an incidental relationship so do not confuse the two.To speak about passion: passion is something you have when you put in an incredible amount of effort and NOT achieve it. In other words, you have to be incompetent to a certain degree in order to be passionate about anything. Otherwise, you'll actually be doing it which means it's easy. Like walking. I've never met anyone who was passionate about walking except for toddlers who've just learned how.
To speak about passion: passion is something you have when you put in an incredible amount of effort and NOT achieve it. In other words, you have to be incompetent to a certain degree in order to be passionate about anything. Otherwise, you'll actually be doing it which means it's easy. Like walking. I've never met anyone who was passionate about walking except for toddlers who've just learned how.
No one cares if you are passionate or not. In reality, it's something people say but it has no substance whatsoever. It just sounds good to hear. I knew dozens of people who were passionate about piano but played poorly. Some of them are in doctoral programs. I am not passionate about playing at all; I just do it very well. Passion and competence are two very different things that only have an incidental relationship so do not confuse the two.
But that's exactly what I'm saying passion is. Kind of like the cellists who have F hole tattoos on their backs but who can't really play the cello.
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Oh and I'm sorry Mr. Damper.. I think I have much more life experience outside of school than you could ever imagine! This is a piano forum, you shouldn't 'assume' things about other people. You don't know me and I asked a normal question in which I tried to describe my situation.Of course nothing personal Mr. Damper