Rebecca McCarthy

Personal growth and learning contributor

Rebecca McCarthy contributes Plan Your Dreams & Pursue Your Passion to Pardon Me, I'm Prospering. Her chapter begins with an uncomfortable piano lesson and the gap between wanting to play and understanding what practice would require.

The account follows learning through childhood and adulthood, including the influence of teachers, other musicians and unexpected settings. Rebecca describes learning to keep a steady beat while working in a Christian drug-rehabilitation environment, an example of development arriving outside the place she expected.

Her contribution asks what success actually means to the person pursuing it. Practice, allowing mistakes and choosing people who can help are recurring subjects. Rebecca connects them with the need to examine a personal ambition rather than simply follow someone else's measure of achievement.

The chapter introduces the perspective behind her personal-development interests. Music supplies a concrete story through which she explores patience, confidence and continued effort, with the emphasis on what a person learns along the way as well as the outcome.