Whatever is it that you’re trying to master, it’s all about direct experience.

They talk about the 10 000 hour rule. That’s something like 5 years of 8 hour days.

Where are you going to invest your next 5 years?

10 000 Hours

Mastery takes a long time to achieve. For example I’ve been playing piano for some time now and I still can’t master any challenging songs on it. It takes such a long time to get proficient in a field.

That’s why I said earlier that the piano is my teacher, because it taught me something valuable about the effort needed in order to do something in a magnificent way.

I’m a pretty fast writer these days and I know English pretty well, but by no means am a Shakespeare yet.

But what might this project look like after 10 000 hours of work on it? I think the results would then speak for themselves.

Don’t Get Discouraged

That’s why I advise this, don’t get discouraged when the results take their time. The beauty of the process is that it’s an enjoyable one that takes quite a bit of work to get there.

I do think that my work as a writer of this publication is an enjoyable one. I look forward to spending 10 000 hours working on this project, the journey is the point.

The Journey Is The Point

Compare it to walking. If you keep writing, you will have a huge body of work in no time if you do it daily for some time.

Success as a writer could be compared to walking 1000 kilometers, or more.

If you write that much, I call that success. All of the benefits will come when you look at the process like the marathon that it is.

1000 Words Per Day For A Month

Just doing this challenge alone is pretty good, I’d compare it with walking 10 000 steps which is what they recommend, especially if you sit down a lot like myself.

The question is simply this, where are we going to focus our time and energy into. Anything works, so just pick your preferred medium and method.

Many Ways To Live

There are always many paths to choose from in life, the best method I’ve found is to pick one for now and if I feel like it, I can always change it up later.

If you work at anything for years it tends to become quite glorious.

You will develop many skills if you’re pursuing a field of interest and those are what your employers or clients are looking for.

If you produce every day, in the end, you will have a lot to show.

Experience It For Yourself

No matter where you are in your journey, there’s always the next step to take. And with time we build momentum and the process becomes very enjoyable.

Focus on the small wins. Anything created is a small victory, success consists of small victories done in successes and it gives us the so called “Winner Effect”.

The Winner Effect is when we start to succeed consistently in reaching our goals.

Songwriting Success

For example I once set a goal to make 52 songs in 52 weeks. I really succeeded with it, I think I produced that year like 70 songs.

So the success might follow a similar path, whatever your field is.

The very reason why Pablo Picasso was a successful artist is the big volume of his work which he generated over decades.

So that’s a nice lesson right there. By creating every day, big results are possible.

I’ve been on the creation hamster-wheel for quite some time now but I feel like I am merely getting started right now.

Creating For Success

That way we are the captain of our own ship and we get to choose our own paths towards huge things happening in our lives.

I am talking about manifesting material success along with spiritual wellbeing, or true power.

I like to create every day around morning time and noon, like 2pm or so, that seems to fit my biological clock pretty well.

An Omen

So we might get blessed on our journey by unseen forces, and they might give us a hand during this process.

Get Lots of Direct Experience

That’s the concept for today, get lots of direct experience in some areas of your life and see where that will take you.