Effort

Do you write something that comes off your mind or do you plan carefully before you hit the keyboard?

It's fun when I type everything that comes out of my mind at that moment. I feel like myself playing a great piece of piano. You know, I always have this imagination that pianist playing piano is so cool! Like they're so indulge in that moment of joy that they will consciously ignore the crowd and just dancing their fingers on the keys. Of course, it is important that the pianist knows how to play good music so that the audiences are not annoyed by the show.

This brings me to the idea of indulgence. Not that indulgence in the Catholics, but rather the hedonistic experience of doing something you really love and enjoy every moment of doing it. Being able to indulge in something is not an amateur's luxury. It always occur that we have to have a certain level of expertise in doing that activity. 

Normally (excluding prodigies) when we start doing something, we would find it hard to grasp the pattern of the event. Like when we first learnt numbers. We will learn to memorize the first 10 numbers (zero-nine) and then we were introduced to the number 11, 12, and so on. And when it reaches 19, we will have 20 next, 21 later, and 22 subsequently. We will slowly see a recurring pattern of numbers. Then until 99, we will have 100. We will deduce that after 999 is 1000. Then we will understand the basics of numbers. But that's not all. We may forget about numbers when we go home and play with other children. At the playground, once again we will learn to count how many friends around. Ben, Thomas, Audrey, Jane, oh! So there are four friends here with me. So we relate what we learn into our life.

It was told that in order to master something, we will need 10,000 hours of practicing it. Obviously, not everything we do we will have the opportunity to involve 10,000 hours in it. It's just a general guideline to say that we need a great deal of time in order to be good at it. Of course, this rule can be argued. You can say, ain't there exceptions? Yes, genius probably can achieve the level of proficiency with a shorter amount of time. You can also argue that not everyone who have 10,000 hours experience can be successful. That's true. Success has a luck factor in it. Sometimes when luck doesn't side you, you will find it hard to achieve your goal even though you did all the required preparations.

I believe that not everyone counts how many times we actually put into doing something. We will just guess a rough value and weigh where we are. Nevertheless, the passion of doing the thing we love and the fluent skills we possess is definitely thrilling.