For the Cut's B.A. Parker, the pandemic was going to be the time to learn to play the guitar or do yoga or study French...but how do you even start? For the past year especially, it's felt impossible to try. Parker talks to an Olympic skier who went viral for being a perpetual trier, and a friend who tried all the way to a baking competition on national television. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices