Wrote about practice and repetition
It is the practice that makes the difference. New practices take practice.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
On the train ride I repeated this line to myself, your allocation of effort determines your reality . Mastery requires effort sustained over time. The ability to make practice sacred through repetition. It’s the gardener, philosopher, writer, financier, artist, entrepreneur. Our roads, architecture, movies, books, music, everything beautiful in thi... See more
Nix 🕊 • highly concentrated effort
"Mastery requires lots of practice. But the more you practice something, the more boring and routine it becomes.
Thus, an essential component of mastery is the ability to maintain your enthusiasm. The master continues to find the fundamentals interesting."
Thus, an essential component of mastery is the ability to maintain your enthusiasm. The master continues to find the fundamentals interesting."
3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love
My entire philosophy of how I organize myself as a working painter can be summed up by something George Carlin said: “Just keep movin’ straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.”
You hear a lot in art school about how painters must continue to “grow” and “evolve”—but I think those are such bullshit words. There is gre... See more
You hear a lot in art school about how painters must continue to “grow” and “evolve”—but I think those are such bullshit words. There is gre... See more
Kieran O‘Hare • Following the ‘White-hot Fire Inside of You’
Two simple rules:
- You get better at what you practice.
- Everything is practice.
3-2-1: On acting with confidence, the different types of age, and the importance of momentum
We have to fall in love with our practice. We have to find a way that what we are doing when we practice is exactly what we want to be doing, and then practice will begin to be what we are doing all of the time, whether we are doing it formally or going through our daily lives.
If practice is a chore, or it is boring, or if you’d rather be doing so... See more
If practice is a chore, or it is boring, or if you’d rather be doing so... See more
corey ichigen hess • You Have to Love Your Practice
Practice is important but it has to be good practice. Bad practice is thoughtlessly repeating something to perfect it. Good practice is putting time into imaginative improvement. When Matisse produced a series of paintings of the same female model, he didn’t achieve more and more accuracy: he achieved more and more inventiveness.