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By Catherine Foster Correspondent In the new year, people resolve to improve themselves: Quit being so snarky, eat more kale, learn the trombone! But travel writer Tom Vanderbilt didnât wait for a new year to shake up his world. After watching his daughter learn to play chess, he decided to join her. Emboldened by the experience, Vanderbilt started on his own adult-ed study, learning to sing, surf, swim, juggle, draw, and create jewelry. In âBeginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning,â he describes frankly (and humorously) the embarrassment that comes with repeated failures as well as quiet triumphs. His aim is to understand what it means for a middle-aged man to learn new skills, and, deeper still, ....
Winning steps ⦠Oti Mabuse and Bill Bailey on the TV show Strictly Come Dancing. Photograph: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Most highly skilled fields have rude names for beginners. In surfing youâre a âkookâ, in chess a âpatzerâ, in competitive cycling a âFredâ and in the US army a âbootâ. âDilettanteâ, from the Italian dilettare, to delight, has come to mean a frivolous dabbler. âAmateurâ, with its roots in the French word for love, now often means inept, bungling, uncommitted. And yet there has never been a better time to be a beginner. Learning platforms such as Coursera, Skillshare and Duolingo sell you an experience that you can fit around your busy life, achieving mastery in short bursts. The enforced inertia of lockdown seems to have led to a wave of intellectual and creative self-improvement, at least for the first few weeks. As a man arrested for il ....