Everything Is a Practice
Practicing is not living. But when you build your skills through an ever-changing sequence of experiences, you’re alive.
Scott Adams • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Mastery by George Leonard.
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Learn to juggle. Draw an owl. Make things better. Without regard for whether it’s going to work this time. The practice will take you where you seek to go better than any other path you can follow. And while you’re engaging in the practice, you’ll honor your potential and the support and kindness of everyone who came before you.
Seth Godin • The Practice
Living life as an artist is a practice. You are either engaging in the practice or you’re not. It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it. It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.”
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Every artist, at every juncture in the process, can get better through practice, study, and research.