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The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2701" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jan/07/the-joys-of-being-an-absolute-beginner-for-life" target="_blank"><strong>The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>The phrase ‘adult beginner’ can sound patronising. It implies you are learning something you should have mastered as a child. But learning is not just for the young</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>One day a number of years ago, I was deep into a game of draughts on holiday with my daughter, then almost four, in the small library of a beachfront town. Her eye drifted to a nearby table, where a black-and-white board bristled with far more interesting figures (many a future chess master has been innocently drawn in by “horses” and “castles”).</p><p></p><p>“What’s that?” she asked. “Chess,” I replied. “Can we play?” she pleaded. I nodded absently.</p><p></p><p>There was just one problem: I didn’t know how. I dimly remembered having learned the basic moves as a kid, but chess had never stuck. This fact vaguely haunted me through my life. I would see an idle board in a hotel lobby or a puzzle in a weekend newspaper supplement, and feel a pang.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2701, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jan/07/the-joys-of-being-an-absolute-beginner-for-life'][B]The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life - The Guardian[/B][/URL] [B]The phrase ‘adult beginner’ can sound patronising. It implies you are learning something you should have mastered as a child. But learning is not just for the young [/B] One day a number of years ago, I was deep into a game of draughts on holiday with my daughter, then almost four, in the small library of a beachfront town. Her eye drifted to a nearby table, where a black-and-white board bristled with far more interesting figures (many a future chess master has been innocently drawn in by “horses” and “castles”). “What’s that?” she asked. “Chess,” I replied. “Can we play?” she pleaded. I nodded absently. There was just one problem: I didn’t know how. I dimly remembered having learned the basic moves as a kid, but chess had never stuck. This fact vaguely haunted me through my life. I would see an idle board in a hotel lobby or a puzzle in a weekend newspaper supplement, and feel a pang. [/QUOTE]
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