Become a Novice, then the Master
It HAS to be in that order
“Many things aren't fun until you're good at them . Every skill has what I call a frustration barrier, a period of time in which you're horribly unskilled and you're painfully aware of that fact.” -Josh Kaufman (The First 20 Hours)
Being a Novice is the only way to become a Master. You can’t skip ahead, you can’t cheat you’re way there. To become a true novice, you need experience doing the thing you want to do, and there is no substitute, you need to try doing the thing and failing a lot at it in the meantime.
Failure is what makes us Human. It’s what binds us together in this Journey here on this Earth. Through Failure, we find out exactly who we are and what we are capable of. This is also a reason the recent Ai wave has me miffed sometimes. To be Imperfect is to be Human, but with Ai we can become perfect?! What’s the point! What’s the point of needing to learn your Time Tables if calculators exist? The point is to get experience doing times tables so you can do more complicated later on, not give the calculator experience doing more time tables.
Experience comes before mastery, it’s the mountain you must climb, the river you must swim across, the trail you must blaze. Don’t run from it, go through it. An Easy life is truly never easy.
Until Tomorrow,
Jason Ziebarth (Club255)
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