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01-03-2008, 08:44 AM
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Whats the motivation to keep going after you have hit your peak ?
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01-03-2008, 08:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: 97465 | | | dbl Taurus = too dumb to know when to quit
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01-03-2008, 08:48 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | | There are Jazz musicians who are still learning in their 70s/80s - I don't think you ever stop learning and all that experience goes into informing your art !
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01-03-2008, 08:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas | | | Momentum.
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01-03-2008, 09:00 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | Realizing that for every peak, there is a valley below.....and for every valley, a peak will follow.
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01-03-2008, 09:04 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Detroit | | | Peak?
BWAAAAAHHAHAHAAAA!!! I'll never peak at anything I do. Ever. I'll always consider myself a Half-Assed Anything. Engineer, bassist, carpenter, designer, artist, mechanic, whatever. I'll never be great at something, nor ever know everything about any one subject to consider myself peaked out. |
01-03-2008, 09:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryan316  Peak?
BWAAAAAHHAHAHAAAA!!! I'll never peak at anything I do. Ever. I'll always consider myself a Half-Assed Anything. Engineer, bassist, carpenter, designer, artist, mechanic, whatever. I'll never be great at something, nor ever know everything about any one subject to consider myself peaked out. | Heh. I heard that. By the time I get halfway competent at something I get bored with it and move on to something else.
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01-03-2008, 09:14 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | I'll let you know when I get there. I'm only 57, so there's a ways to go. |
01-03-2008, 09:18 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Detroit | | Quote:
Originally Posted by middy Heh. I heard that. By the time I get halfway competent at something I get bored with it and move on to something else. | Oh my GAAAWD we're twins! It's like, OCD for creativity. "Yeah, I made a sword, screw that, time for a battle axe. Wow, made a few battle axes, awesome, I think I'll go rip a Chevy small block apart..." ??? I'll go off on absolute TANGENTS with my hobbies and projects. Heh. Started building a bass, got all the wood, neck, pickups, bridge, been sitting there parked for 9 months now.  |
01-03-2008, 11:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: San Diego, California | | | The fact that I know that theres always someone out there who is better than me, and the desire to become better than them. |
01-03-2008, 11:07 AM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Just ask this guy: 
He peaked as a back up quarterback for his high school team in 1982.
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01-03-2008, 03:32 PM
| | | | Because once you've demonstrated you can do something cool once, there's a pretty good chance you can do something as good or better in the future.
I know there are people out there better than me, but occasionally, on a good day I get to stand next to them.
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01-03-2008, 05:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryan316 Peak?
BWAAAAAHHAHAHAAAA!!! I'll never peak at anything I do. Ever. I'll always consider myself a Half-Assed Anything. Engineer, bassist, carpenter, designer, artist, mechanic, whatever. I'll never be great at something, nor ever know everything about any one subject to consider myself peaked out. | Totally. I know a little about everything, but not a whole lot about anything. 
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01-03-2008, 07:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Kent, England | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryan316 Peak?
BWAAAAAHHAHAHAAAA!!! I'll never peak at anything I do. Ever. I'll always consider myself a Half-Assed Anything. Engineer, bassist, carpenter, designer, artist, mechanic, whatever. I'll never be great at something, nor ever know everything about any one subject to consider myself peaked out. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryan316 Oh my GAAAWD we're twins! It's like, OCD for creativity. "Yeah, I made a sword, screw that, time for a battle axe. Wow, made a few battle axes, awesome, I think I'll go rip a Chevy small block apart..." ??? I'll go off on absolute TANGENTS with my hobbies and projects. Heh. Started building a bass, got all the wood, neck, pickups, bridge, been sitting there parked for 9 months now. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Atoz Totally. I know a little about everything, but not a whole lot about anything. | +1 here
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01-03-2008, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim I'll let you know when I get there. I'm only 57, so there's a ways to go. | Yeah... I'm older as well.. What keeps me "going" knowing that sooner than later the speed and learning curve will never get any faster/better? Stubborness, also a return on a long investment.. plus playing is a pleasant 'habit' .. |
01-03-2008, 07:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: New York | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryan316 Peak?
BWAAAAAHHAHAHAAAA!!! I'll never peak at anything I do. Ever. I'll always consider myself a Half-Assed Anything. Engineer, bassist, carpenter, designer, artist, mechanic, whatever. I'll never be great at something, nor ever know everything about any one subject to consider myself peaked out. | Jack of all trades, but master of none? |
01-03-2008, 07:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: St. John's, NL | | | I believe in miracles
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01-03-2008, 07:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | | Cuz hitting rock bottom takes too much effort to recover. |
01-03-2008, 10:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Sudbury, Canada | | | I tend to be too lazy to get to the point where I would peak.
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01-03-2008, 10:06 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | If you ever think you've peaked play a round of golf. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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