Anna

Learning something while still young is an incredible advantage. You worry less about your mistakes, since you notice them less, and you naturally improve as you grow. This doesn't necessarily mean that you will automatically be better than everyone else, but that experience has accustomed you to mistake-making, and has thus better-equipped you to roll with the punches.

Conversely, someone who learned from an older age may not have the mindset necessary to accept the mistakes they make and learn from them. Rather, they may become upset and frustrated by their mistakes, and be discouraged and unwilling to continue learning. Pressing on at this point may be a massive challenge for some. They are tired of their constant mistakes, and dearly wish for reward for attaining the skill they have have been slaving over for so long - a reward that they saw their early-learning friends enjoying, and decided they wanted too.

Simply put, they want proof that they haven't wasted all this time and energy for nothing.

But no, not today. Their dream is yet to be fulfilled, and more work awaits. They're just about ready to throw in the towel and write off all their effort in their (arguably justifiable) frustration.

At this point, they have to ask themselves a simple question, a question that applies to not only learning, but everything in life, and to which the answer may have far-reaching consequences.

"How much do you really want this?"