Molly Mac, interesting! I do indeed push myself in all those areas, and enjoy doing so. Now you’ve got me turning my question back on myself: why do I think style change shouldn’t be a thing to push for?
Part of my answer I just wrote on Angie’s blog, is that I see it as analogous to other processes in life that I watch closely, confident that change will happen, without forcing that change.
I’m working now on being able to do a muscle up. First I have to be able to do dips & pullups. To be able to do those, I’m doing partials and static holds. As long as I am faithful with these smaller parts, the bigger one will come, so I don’t think so much about it (well, other than my mother & BiL’s faces when they see it, lol).
In terms of style, I guess I’m seeing the daily “how can I make this work for me” as being like those partial dips on the couch; eventually they will add up to a style change, basically on their own.
So how do I see this as a natural, not forced evolution, if I’m making choices and working on small steps along the way? I’m not pushing for shifts I’m not comfortable with, or even a certain direction. I’m just taking one little step at a time, and they will add up to whatever they add up to, without me orchestrating or thinking about the overall too terribly hard. A change that’s forced would be more like deciding I want to be like, idk, Christine leGard, and buying scarves, learning to swoop them, and becoming comfortable with them as part of that top-down project.