For Sunday quote of the week I have some words by John Holt. It’s well known that you can improve your chances of success through your mental processes, but unless they go hand in hand with work and the improving of skills, dreams may not eventuate…

“Not many years ago I began the play the cello. Most people would say that what I am doing is ‘learning to play’ the cello. But these words carry into our minds the strange idea that there exist two very different processes: one, learning to play the cello; and two, playing the cello. They imply that I will do the first until I have completed it, at which point I will stop the first process and begin the second. In short, I will go on ‘learning to play’ until I have ‘learned to play’ and then I will begin to play. Of course, this is nonsense. There are not two processes, but one. We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.” – JOHN HOLT