How to be more ... Asian. *%^%?!

The first lesson: choose the right instrument.

When I attended college in the US, someone was telling me how some students would literally drop out of their math class if more than 10% of the class was Asian. Apparently some nefarious bell curve was going to wring away their chances of acing tests. Seriously.

Many moons later, my son is now at risk of being labelled as one of those bell-curve busting Asians, right down to his violin. Don't worry that we've got him in a Montessori school. Just being close to the punch line is good enough.

What a lot of people choose to see is different from what I'm looking at. Of course, I'm interested in that sweet little boy on the left of the photo. But who's playing a really important role is that other gorgeous person in the photo. In no uncertain terms, she is 100% laser-focused, knows how to get the best out of students, stress tests them often, and like the terminatrix ... doesn't ever stop.

I have told him before. It doesn't have to be violin - it can be competition knitting for all I care. It's the quality of training and the life skills you learn that's important. So for now, and perhaps for ever ... [in the most nagging voice] it's violin playing time.

Links

• Overthinking the Unthinkable
• The Best in the World Does Not Cater Children's Meals

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