I'm a piano student from Iceland sharing my progress. when I was 7 I took one year in the Suzuki piano school here in Iceland but I didn't show any interest and never practiced, when i was finally allowed to quit I played accordion also for around a year, I never learned to read music and only learned a few songs by ear. but after that I kind of gave up on music because I just didn't like it and I never wanted to practice. I just lived my life normally having friends, playing video games, partying and all that. almost all my life I wanted to become a pilot and even took the first year of high school on the pilot course. But then one day a watched an anime called Your Lie In April which opened up the world of classical music for me. I started listening very much to the basics like Tchaikovsky and others and finally I started learning to play for myself. I have been teaching myself to play piano since January 2019 and started taking piano lessons and music theory in august 2020.