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  1. And there's the rub. Hard for me to chastise them for screen time, when I'm on non-stop myself (work and pleasure). They also carry pretty heavy academic and sports loads these days, so writing is just one of the unfortunate fallouts.

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  2. And did you master it (writing leftie)? I tried, but didn't stick with it long enough to acquire enough dexterity for writing. I think they still notice lefties in sports, but handwriting seems to be becoming a dying art, even in the classroom.

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  3. Not only is cursive becoming an untaught and foreign script, but these kids have horrible penmanship. There's no flair, embellishment, or the hundreds of hours spent to hone it. I still have a large callus on my middle finger from writing so much. Now it's all screens and keyboards.

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  4. I'm over here tryna get my scales down, and these guys are doing crazy magic with their picking styles, harmonics, and shit no other guitarist can physically do. I have a buddy that spent 20 years learning to play King Crimson's Fracture (and even studied with Robert Fripp himself)

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