Sometimes You Get the Wrong Information

<p>I learned how to play the guitar from two books. When I finally took lessons, I learned that I had not learned how to play correctly, and my teacher had to help me unlearn some bad habits.</p> <p>As a guitar teacher, students would bring copies of guitar music they'd found online, and most of the time, the music was wrong. I would have to take the music they'd found, listen to the recording, and make corrections for them so they wouldn't be forming bad habits.</p> <p>People who heard them play couldn't discern when a song was incorrect. They thought it sounded a lot like the original. But as a teacher, I couldn't let them learn the incorrect way to play.</p> <p>I have a coaching client who came to me with a pretty jaded view of coaches after spending $12000 for a program with a well-known coach and ended up being worse off than when she'd started. Even expensive coaching programs can get it wrong; there was no way she could have known this before she invested.</p> <p>The best we can do is get as much information about things before we commit to them, whether guitar music or self-development. Not only do we want to find out if the source is credible, but we might also do well to find out how it works for people like us.&nbsp;</p> <p>We can't know everything ahead of time, but we can fill in a lot of the blanks before making decisions we may regret later.</p> <p>#learning #lifelessons #misinformation,</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/franklin-taggart9/message