"I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it." -- Kenny G
In the end, nothing comes all at once, nothing just comes to one in a bundle or heap, it comes bit by bit. All we get and all we are able to acquire are a result of the small work and constant practice we put in. I will try as much as possible to refrain from using the cliche "Practise makes perfect". But I think we all know truly that it is by practising consistently that we attain near perfection at whatever it is that you choose to lay your heart and hands to do.
The catch though, is that constant practise is a rather strenuous activity. It takes a lot of physical energy and mental courage to keep putting in the work day in and day out in one thing to become better. Some days it feels like there is no progress, it feels like you are consistently hitting rock bottom and you need tremendous mental stamina to push you to keep practicing.
But the man who is able to crack the code and unearth this most Holy of Grails will attain such level of success that even the gods from their towers at Olympus will look down with a tinge of jealousy. The man who is able to realize this will attain such lofty heights that history will create a space for him alongside the other greats to have achieved this.
The irony of life is that the greatest of things are relatively easy to achieve it attain. They just take a while to get done, but many don't have the patience to see them to a good conclusion. I am not a patient man, but I have made it my mantra, it's my nindo, Practice, Practice, Practice. Perhaps one day I can also attain greet heights
You don't even have to do something for 3 hours a day to make yourself good, in most things it takes even less than twenty minutes a day to see results. It is not about quantity, and spending a lot of time doing something, but about quality, spending little time but well used. It's like they say, you can do something a lot, or you can do it well, but not both. And everyone can take fifteen, maybe ten minutes a day off, to do something, but nobody does anything with it.
In my opinion, the key is not practice but perseverance, if you add ten minutes well spent a day, every day, eventually you spend hours, or whole days in total, doing that thing, so you become really good at it. But if it is necessary to take three or more hours a day, it is very likely that it is too exhausting and that the time is not well used, perhaps it is too much and you cannot be constant with that, because it requires a lot of commitment, you can only do something for that amount of time if you really enjoy it, so it's not for everyone, and one will likely end up abandoning it, then end up accumulating less time, and of worse quality, than if you were only doing it for ten minutes, but better used, and for many more days. If it is a short time, one can do it any day, always, and it is likely that it will become a habit.
It only takes a few minutes a day, but persistently, every day, to be good at something. It is as they say, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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