I was listening to this audio book, that I gleefully downloaded from the internet, that was going on and on about experts ands people at the top of their game. The whole thesis of the book was that expertise, or being brilliant at something all just came down to routine practice. Practice, practice practice. That concert pianist, violin verseroso, were they born with talent? Not so much. They just started early and practiced lots; and I mean lots.
This book went so far as to estimate how much practice you had to put in to become top of your field. The writer figured you needed to put in around ten thousand hours. The way he put it was our brains needed about ten thousand hours of repetition to become expert at something. I can think of several things I should be expert at by now, but lets not go there.
What I've always wanted to do is write. Being an expert writer would be an added bonus. But what I've never really done is write anything. I've just whined about it. So,on this blog I'm going to try and write something every day, for about an hour. That will give me 365 hours a year...about 1,000 hours every 3 years...so...I'll be an expert writer in...lets see...30 years. Thirty years!
Thirty years. Well,I don't need to be the top of my field, I don't need to be the best writer, I just need to be a writer. And writers write, that's what makes a good writer. I'm going to write for an hour every day.
Lets see, how long has it been. Ten minutes. Hmmm. I'm going to have to write slower.
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2014/03/26
Well, that certainly didn't happen. And whats worse is I never finished one of my stories. Oh dear.
On the positive side, I have done some writing, just not story writing. Check out my other blogs.
My other blogs:
OpenVZ on Debian - http://openvzondeb.blogspot.ca/
Linux Server Hardening - http://linuxserverhardening.blogspot.ca/
Icecast on Debian - http://icecastondebian.blogspot.ca/2013/10/page-one_31.html
SSHFS with rcync - http://usingsshfs.blogspot.ca/
SOCKS Tunneling - http://sockstunneling.blogspot.ca/
Kobo Arc 7", 64GB - http://koboarc.blogspot.ca/ [*new*]
and, a few works in progress:
Short Stories - http://louisebridgewrites.blogspot.ca/
Android TV Sticks - http://tvsticks.blogspot.ca/
My Streams:
Ices information panel - http://www.eclectica.mx:8000/
One of my streams is an all Neil Young stream.To see its listing on the Icecast Directory [at: http://dir.xiph.org/ ] search for Neil.
The search results will be: Neil Young [x listeners] " All Neil Young, and only Neil Young."
[all links in this article worked as of 2014/03/25 ]
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