titles and time well spent
I once heard it took 10,000 hours to master something. 10 000 hours behind a piano, swinging a bat, play chess, whatever it was, it took 10,000 hours to truly nail it so to speak. After telling this to a friend he said, “Wow that means some of the delivery drivers I work with are total masters at their job. Let’s see 8 hours times 5 days a week for 52 weeks is 2080 hours in a year; 5 years working that job and you’re a master at bringing in and out crates of pop bottles.” It’s true you know, you look at some of them, how they work, and they are masters at their job.
So we are constantly meeting masters and virtuosos in our day to day lives. It’s true. As well it makes one think about how and to what we apply our time. Still in whatever we engage in, regardless of for how long, it is very few who adopt the title of master, fewer too who consider themselves virtuosos, which brings me to another label – artist. Some of the most creative and skilled individuals I know shrug off such titles and simply do what they do and have always done. For them, whatever their medium, their work speaks for itself. Others hungrily wait for some kind of arts and culture branding franchise to officially grant them such recognition before they will claim the title artist. Same goes for musicians, writers, athletes etc… Regardless of which you are, labels can help define what you’re doing and reflect a relationship cultivated over time. However, it really is the relationship’s constant evolution that creates and solidifies the “artist” and the realization of mastery and all subsequent titles only a byproduct of the exploration.
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