Is it ever too late?

[Arkhangelsk]

Is it ever too late to learn something? I thought of how my parents say that I will never become as skilled violinist as the extreme virtuosos cause I started at the age of 15, rather than being forced at the age of 3 (I actually wished I was forced at that age). But is that fully true? Is it ever to late to truly learn? And I don't mean too late as in 2 months left to live. What I mean is that, as long as you have time, you should be able to learn as long as you try hard, right? Or am I completely wrong here?

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

If you practice like a madman and study your instrument, then you should have a chance.

The minute you start getting bored and putting off practice, you have failed.

 

[RobotNinja]

Some people are more musically inclined than others. That doesn't mean you can't be as good as them, you just have to work harder. If you really want to learn violin, go for it.

 

[badgersprite]

No. It's never too late. In fact, being older, I think you're more likely to adapt much faster. My music teacher had to learn piano in order to become a teacher, so he took it up at about seventeen, and he's brilliant at it.

 

[LongAndShort]

The great virtuosos (of any instrument) are not the people forced from the age of 3, but people with will, enthusiasm, discipline and freakish natural talent. no its never to late to at least try and learn.

 

[Paladin426]

With enough practice, you can learn anything.

 

[Mr. Grey]

Well I could beat you in the head with a stick until you become a savant, but I don't like the prospect of jail.

Personal viewpoint leads me to say there are limitations put onto the mind when you grow up, it's more or less how you grew up early that decides who you will most likely become. I myself have a problem with discipline yet I am no troublemaker, but the problem is that I don't push myself to do things and eventually decide whether or not it's worth continuing. So far art has been worth continuing and I haven't given up on it, but writing has always been easy for me. It's mostly because art follows the right side of the brain where writing follows the left side of the brain.

Music is the same as art, it's for the right side of the brain mostly, hence the savant joke - which admittedly was in poor taste - that would mean you'd understand it easier to learn if you thought more with your right side of the brain. You have to turn down the left side of the brain and crank up the right side to learn it easier, but it's not the only way and you definitely can learn to be a virtuoso, it's not impossible because nothing ever is. Just push yourself and - it was inevitable to say - believe you can become great with this instrument.

 

[LockHeart]

It's never too late. True, you learn things much faster as a child, but the capacity to learn never dies.

 

[Timotei]

I started playing the violin at the age of 4 and was taught by grandmother. She too had the same views that for you to truly be good at something you have to be taught at a young age. I do not know if those words hold any truth but I do know that the younger you are when you start something, the better you'll end up being in the long run.

It kind of makes me wish my hand hadn't gotten fucked up,

 

[grimsprice]

Is it ever too late to learn something? I thought of how my parents say that I will never become as skilled violinist as the extreme virtuosos cause I started at the age of 15, rather than being forced at the age of 3 (I actually wished I was forced at that age). But is that fully true? Is it ever to late to truly learn? And I don't mean too late as in 2 months left to live. What I mean is that, as long as you have time, you should be able to learn as long as you try hard, right? Or am I completely wrong here?

No, you don't want to have been forced at age 3. I was forced at age 5 to learn piano, and now i can't stand to think about playing it. I was scarred against it. Its true though, if a child learns something it can imprint on the forming mind easier, but it should be possible to learn just the same, so long as you truly want it.

 

[Sparrow]

It's never too late, it's just a little more difficult. Also, you'll have less time to enjoy your new talent.

 

[DSEZ]

i think i would be easier to learn stuff being older cause your more patient and less likely to be bored

 

[War Penguin]

No, I doubt anything can too late to learn. Well, that is to say you're dead but your not... right?

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

It is to late.


Wanna know why?


"YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!!"


I had to.