Ever Wondered What Makes Those People SO Good at Their Thing?...
...It's certainly not only one thing what makes them good, or is it?
Well, clearly with what I am about to share with you is not enough to become SO good at that. Whatever it is. But this is the ABC for getting there. So pay attention, because this is what walking means to running! (did you get the metaphor?).
"El que mucho abarca poco aprieta"
("The one who spreads too much, gets too little", or something like that)
My mother used to tell me that. And yes, she speaks Spanish only.
I always wanted to do absolutely everything, I wanted to be a chef, scientist, physicist, astronomer, writer, artist, musician, sportsman, adventurer, and the list continues. So my mother used to tell me that if I do so many things, I will never really get that good at one.
And she was right.
See, this is absolutely important and I could give you countless examples for this. But let's give just one:
Suppose that you want to be the best in four things. Say, the best chef, the best psychologist, the best basketball player and the best videogamer.
Let me say this: not gonna happen.
We humans divide our knowledge and incorporation of information and development of skills in periods of 24 hours (actually less because of the sleeping time, work, etc). So you have to practice and study daily to really get there.
I honestly can't believe that someone can be the best in anything if that person only applies two hours a day. Mostly because our full-focus daily time is less than that (One hour daily aprox. Can be more with a lot of practice and dedication).
In order to get the best at something, you don't only need time for that, but you need to put your shit together all your efforts and vision and way of thinking into that specific aspect and profession. Magic doesn't exist. If you ask to any artist or professional that you admire, they would get offended if you tell them that you envy their talent.
Because it's not talent, it s a skill. Now if you tell them "I envy your capacity for studying, being consistent and constant" then they would love your comment. We all build this... The only thing we barely know to do when we are born is to breath, and not that much. No one was born knowing.
Who am I?
The time taught me to be more selective with my choices. This is why I have a profession, a passion,
and a hobby.
The hobby: Something I enjoy at most although is not a passion, or maybe it could be considered like so. But it is something that I do in my free time. It most likely doesn't give me any earning in return, but keep me really hyped and interested about learning and experimenting more about it.
My hobby is the interpersonal ways of communication and body language. I analyze it, I learn from it,
I play with it, it means a lot of fun to me to learn new was of communicate. And it is also very productive because any profession is based in the cooperation with others, so this helps me to be better at everything else.
The passion: The thing that moves your world. If I should describe it in few words, this is the thing that it doesn't matter if you don't have time for it. You just make time for it.
My passion is to train, the gym, calisthenics, to swim, to go to the mountain and do trekking, snowboarding,
to establish new connections between my brain and body. And the result is just amazing in every aspect of my life. Not to say that it keeps me healthy and active.
The profession: It's also a passion, the first and biggest of them all, and this was my choice, because I decided to be the best I can aim to be in the field. Therefore I made from it my profession. I spend here most of my time and I've changed the way I see the world just to understand better what do.
My profession is to be an artist, designer and illustrator. And I see the world in a way of learning new ways of how I can apply things on the canvas. Every time I go out I see brush strokes, color palettes, values and shapes. Wherever I go I see textures and features on whoever I meet with. This is my life, this is the way and the why I exist. And it was all my choice.
As you can see It looks like if I was playing an RPG and I cheated on the stats, right? Kinda, all the stats are pushing each other further and give me a whole bonus in life.
Well, this is life. All these things were calculated. But at same time I just felt them in my chest. I looked for my profession since I have memory. I've been playing violin since my 11, played in many orchestras and been even concertino for quite long. I've wrote already a novel of 600 pages. I've tried to find my way as a chef and also read a loot of physics and astronomy books. And guess what, visual arts was my gig.
Also these three aspects of my life represent something i call the Human Triangle: Body, mind and soul.
My advice for you is to discover "your three things" and establish the proper priorities.
Said all this. Allow me to extend this question to you:
Who are you?
Thanks a lot for your support and I see you in the next one!
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Loved the article. It is a real struggle for me to stay focused in one direction. People have always told me that I was talented at this and that and that I shouldn't waste my talent. The thing is that they don't realize my talent is one that I think everyone possesses and that is the ability to break something down, study it, and improve. I have loads of interests. I'm not a good artist. I am just stubborn as hell.
Yes people tell me all the time, "You are so gifted." That is one of my least favorite sentences of all time. This is just most people's way of justifying why they can't do something. They would rather believe that they were born without it instead of accepting they haven't worked for it.
How I explain it to them is like this: It isn't a gift. Let's say you go to work and get paid after a period a week or two. When you get that paycheck you would find it weird if someone saw that money you received and said, "Gosh, I wish I had that gift." You would find it weird because a paycheck is a form of compensation for your work and gift is something that didn't require you to do anything.
You ask the great question, "Who are you?". Personally I am a curious observer. Taking in the world and exploring. My goal is to turn that into my profession. The dream is to explore whatever interest I have at the time and share that. To find a way to fund projects and be paid for sharing them. It might be art, music, science, philosophy, or simply storytelling. I think Steemit is an amazing opportunity to grow the support to do exactly that, and meet so many amazing people.
Again, great post my friend.
Let's go by parts: regarding to your talent, maybe many have that talent, I do that as well, but believe me, it is not something that can relate to everyone in terms that it includes all the topics. Let me explain this better:
We both have the talent to break down things, to analyze them, to find ways of doing it better, struggle with it, practice it and getting better at it. What can make you unique about this is how you apply this. Take Jacob Barnett as an example, he has Aspeger and he explains the way of the success related to his studies and projects: He applies this vision of breaking down things until oblivion. And I am talking about just going outside to the park and observe the movement of the trees, the grass, the wind, the temperature and finding patterns Source.
You can do the same in a way that suits you at most (which I recommend to apply it to whatever makes you feel alive and drives passion to you).
It is a problem with the education in general, parents (and institutions lately) are very lazy and really centered into their comfort zones. They just give things away because we have a lot of resources lately and we just don't want our children to insist, so fuck it, give that chocolate to them so they keep their mouth shut, but this is the worst in the long run since they grow up without the meaning of hard work and deserving stuff. Source
And related to the last part, I see a gasp of general concepts that start finding a direction. But they are still too general. You gotta digest them and make them take shape. Set the priorities and work within them. But at the moment, they are a little bit messy.
I think you can work on that at the moment and you will do great.
Good luck buddy =)
Thanks for the reply buddy. I don't really agree with the bit about it not applying to everyone on all topics. It comes down to desire and determination. Most people seek to be entertained rather than entertain themselves. When you live in that mindset there isn't any room to observe, explore, learn, and grow, because you are too busy looking for the next distraction. I believe if those same people turned their attention toward any subject they can break it down. The problem is there is no real desire to.
I'm not sure what you mean by messy in the last part. Life is messy. Existence is messy. You might say that all works in progress are messy.
I can understand having a hierarchy of priorities and how that has importance in real world applications. I can understand not being spread too thin, but to sacrifice diversity of mind and experience to be more digestable in my opinion is a mistake in relation to my particular program.
Maybe it is simply a difference of goals. My goal has never been to be the best this or the best that. My goal is to assess, digest, and express. It is all just variations on an evolving puzzle. If I limit that to one thing I feel like the entire spirit of interest will die in pursuit.
My art has been my main priority for the last year, going from rarely making art to taking it serious and try to make a living. As I'm sure you are aware it takes a lot of work to build it up from nothing. Now that I have a solid foundation for that I have more room to explore my other interests. Now having found Steemit I have started exploring, adding a few other interests into the mix. This is the first time I have thought that there was a legitimate way for me to explore many of my interests in a meaningful way. Now through content creation I a have been shown the potential to have some degree of success in getting compensated for sharing these things with others.
I think maybe what you are referring to when you say messy is a lack of structure, and while that statement might hold a little truth I believe there is structure.......just unorthodox structure. Now I might never reach level 9,000 artistry exploring so many other interests, but I am completely okay with that, because that has never been my goal. I'm just working the puzzle. Really interested in your reply buddy. :)
This is a superb post man! I would say for me I am:
The hobby: Video Game Culture- Playing video games have to be one of my biggest influences in my life. I'm pretty sure I was playing before I can remember. If I don't have time to play today, I still stay in touch with the industry and the culture. It influences my art, my confidence and my imagination quite a lot.
The Passion: Learning new things! Either through podcasts, books, comic books, videos or groups, I am always finding the next thing to learn and spread my general knowledge. This also fuels my art and storytelling.
My Profession: Comic artist. I have been an artist for 7 years now and I've grown incredibly. Nothing gives me a better feeling than creating sequential art and storytelling. Most people may thing that it is lame to be strapped to your drawing desk all day, but Ive found happiness, love, death and adventure all without leaving my studio.
Thanks again for this.
The hobbie: that sounds legit!
The Passion: I think it is too diversified, what if you focus it a little bit more? Such as, say... fantasy, sci-fi, middle ages, historical. Whatever you want but more specific, so you can drain the juice from it more efficiently =)
The profession: I do this everyday for the past almost 9 years ;)
Yea, maybe that's my problem. It is my passion haha.
Your mother is exactly right. A lot of my friends and I constantly joke about being jacks of all trades and masters of none as especially when we were younger we all knew a lot about a lot of things but were not particularly good at any of them. I think it's pretty normal when you're young (like how you wanted to be awesome at all these things that caught your interest as a kid) but then we got old and started specialising in the things that we were particularly interested in.
Don't see it as necessarily a bad thing to try a bit of everything if you haven't quite figured out what "your thing" is yet, that's how you find it ;D
And hey if we can hack RPGs (when I used to GM I always used to hack the system I was using sometimes on the fly to make the game more fun/interesting/suit the character builds my players wanted to do a little bit better) I don't see why we shouldn't be able to hack life ;D
Oh I think that we all should try a lot of things until finding DA thing, it's not that we are born with that answer. The world is simply too big and offers too many possibilities to know exactly what we need. And it also evolves a lot, so there is no way for our biology part to know what to do in life since the moment zero.
Hahaha, why you think we like so much RPGs? Because it is life it self but with absolute power of choice! We can even go back in time and change our actions! That s why!
In life time doesn t stop and actions have consequences beyond our control and comprehension, this is why sometimes we can't handle it and feel overloaded and upset.
it freaks me out whenever I see someone that thinks more of talent and less of skills.. its just pathetic
I think it goes side by side with the ignorance and procrastination... but it is really undercovered and hidden in the subconscious. So most of people won't ever realize if they don't get out of their comfort zone =)
I agree with you. I had that with a hobby. I wanted to do handmade gifts, to engage in the technique of quilling, to do decoupage, crochet, embroider, bake cakes... After a while I realized that it was impossible. You need to choose one or the other. I chose cakes. After all, if you care about a hobby you want to develop it, it means to learn, to practice, to experiment, to bring the recipe to perfection. This does not mean that I have abandoned the rest of his work. In the mood I can make brooch or tie something with a hook. Thank you for so clearly formed the idea in the post)
Well I think you've chosen a really yummy hobby! I am sure that done right it can be also very profitable. Since we humans eat also with the eyes, a little bit of design right there could help you way so much!
Good post man, and you are right, dedicating 2 hours a day to something it's not going to make you good at it, i sometimes find myself studying for 10 hours, but i know only 3 of those hours were actually productive.
Thanks a lot! And indeed, only a fraction of the dedicated time was actually really useful. Like training: you don't get bigger and stronger just by doing more, but by training smartly =)
Exactly, training smartly, eating well, sleeping well, the 3 things you need to grow...
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Genetics?
Wooouu I have problems to find my vocation and your post has clarified to me things that are important. I would like to read more post like this.
I am happy that this pushes you a little bit forward. I will make sure to make more posts like this and if you need any advice, please let me know!
it's a good idea you always need people who enlighten the mind with different points of view
Love the text mate!
Feeling inspired to take a new start.
My hobby: having fun with friends. Partying, sports, class, ...
Passion: Love sports, just came back from snowboarding ouchh some fresh powpow was nice
Profession: acting as if i'm doing my best @college
But hope to fix the golden triangle man :)
Try to work on your English if you want to write even better articles, it'd be much nicer to read :)