It was a sentiment I was used to hearing after my piano recitals, growing up.
“Great job,” the audience member walking up to me would say. “I could never.”
I’d say something about how it’s all in the practice, “I bet you could if you tried,” and shrug my way awkwardly out of the conversation.
Those “I could never” conversations troubled me, for several reasons: perhaps first and foremost because I do…
