Tuesday, October 28, 2008

perfect practice

here's a little writing from me inspired by an infamous magician. read it and you might wanna apply it to your daily lives.

practising can get boring in time. at first everything seems to be interesting and exciting as we get better at something we want to achieve.

there are many reasons to it. it could be that we are doing something that someone's not doing so that we are able to expose our expertise and talent to people. it could also be the feeling that we are one step ahead of everyone else. it could also be anything. whatever they are, every reason will not be able to impede ourselves from entering the realm of boredom. it happens. always.

it's not that practising is boring. it's just the fact that we are doing the same thing over and over again that makes it one. once we reach about 75% good at something, we'd stop. and we'd start using a phrase like "good enough". but at some point in time, we do realize that we are not satisfied. even if we do. it's a fake one. it's a true satisfaction that we want, which gets us stop floating in between certainty and uncertainty.

it's the most successful individuals or experts or bosses who take it all the way through the final 25%.

if you haven't got what I mean already, this is it: the main reason we get bored is we don't consider our flaws. we keep practising the same way. we see very little difference. we see no point in continuing. it's boring!

we get stuck evaluating ourselves from 0-75 scale instead of pushing ourselves into the 75-100 scale. the latter contains flaws that need fixing. find them, fix them, it's like we are practising something new, which gets us interested and excited, again. once we're done. we thought we were just doing something new, which in fact it's the same thing we're working on. once we wake up, there will be a nice feeling waiting for you - with one big difference - true satisfaction.

good night, fellas.

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