10,000 hours is a long time to persevere and continue without gaining competence, much less mastery.
Yet, without those hours, every single one of them, there can be no catharsis. There can be no learning.
When we were still actively engaged in the visual arts, we used to hear, “Every artist has 2,000 bad pieces of art inside of them.” This statement was met with incredulity at the time, but it turned out to be absolutely true.
And here’s the other thing about those 2,000 bad pages, by the time the artist gets to page 1,999, he—or she—doesn’t care about what other people think about all the pages that came before.
10,000 hours does more than pound the path toward competence and mastery. It forges the will of iron to continue in the face of rejection, dismissiveness, ignorance and misunderstanding.
So that, at the end of those 10,000 hours, the human mind has become used to the very things that it feared.
-Peace Be With You All-
Jesan Sorrells, MA
Principal Conflict Engagement Consultant
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