btw in your 20's and 30โs youโll start rediscovering the niche interests and hobbies you had as a kid. itโs very important you revisit them. your younger self was actually on to something.
master your craft so completely that it becomes your language. not the language you speak to impress others, but the language you think in. where the work isnโt separate from you, isnโt something you do, but something you are. where your hands know before your mind does. where youโve repeated the fundamentals so many times theyโve dissolved into instinct.
itโs not just talent. itโs mind and body numbing devotion. itโs showing up when inspiration left. itโs the thousand hours nobody saw that make the one hour everybody wants.
excellence is a religion.
and the only prayer that matters is practice.
Just one lifetime ago in the United States, our grandfathers could buy a home, buy a car, have 3 to 4 children, keep their wives at home, take annual vacations, and then retireโฆ all on one middle-class salary. What happened?