Never Stop Learning

A comic about my relationship to climbing (and making art)

I've always hated that I'm a slow learner. My process is messy and nonlinear, especially when it comes to motor coordination and mechanical things. I make a lot of mistakes. I forget stuff, get frazzled, and often have to relearn the basics. I can take nothing for granted and need a lot of repetition for anything to sink in.

When I get discouraged, I sometimes want to give up trying so hard at everything. But the pep talk I usually come around to is this: If everything is a challenge anyway, then there's nothing I can't try.

That's how I learned to climb, to swim, and how I taught myself how to draw comics strips as an adult - one skill at a time. My progress is my own, no matter how hard-won, and nobody can take that away from me.

I think this is true for all of us, no matter how we learn best or choose to spend our time getting better at.

We just have to never stop.

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