When I started playing cricket, I was bad at it. I am still not great at it, but when I stopped playing, I was playing at the best of my ability. What I have noticed about myself is that I need some guidance in the initial phase of anything I do. I cant get the ball rolling by myself, so someone needs to do it for me. Once I start though, I am limited only by my own abilities. For cricket, my guidance came from a P.G.Wodehouse book. Mike and Psmith, I think it was. He wrote about bowling that some character decided that bowling was about pace, break and accuracy. If you have all three, you will be a dangerous bowler. I made more improvement in my bowling in the six months after reading this book, than I had made for more than ten years before.
The same thing is true for anything else. I suck at table tennis as I haven't received any guidance at it.
So should I join a course for writing. Based on the above, I should. But the problem is not about guidance, it's about correct guidance. I have received more guidance for math than any person under the sun, but I still cant differentiate to save my life. I am an engineer. That is a big thing! And now, I am scared of it. So what if I joined a course, but I don't get the kind of help I need from it?
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