You do things that are second nature to you. Tie your shoes, morning rituals, drive a car, whatever it is. My “second nature” thing is using a specific music notation software.

I know the clicks, the key short cuts, and everything that’s involved to quickly produce a nice looking piece of music. Imagine my shock when I learned the company is no longer supporting its product. They want us to use a new product.

I enjoy and hate using the new product. I need to learn all new short cuts, all new clicks, all new ways to do everything that I natively know how to do. Worse than that, I am stymied by not listening to my own advice — everything changes, that’s the only thing that’s constant. How absurd and foolish I am to think it would be any different for software?

After a good laugh, I got back to it.

It’s like learning a new language. You’ll suck at first, but keep it up, little by little.