Despite what we've been told, practice doesn’t make perfect. Nothing does since we are imperfect beings incapable of perfection. Even just practice doesn’t necessarily make one better at something. Dedicated practice, sitting down with a clear objective and focusing on achieving that objective allows one to edge ever closer to that elusive and impossible goal of perfection.
Various art forms share the ability to stir the soul both positively and negatively, which reminds us we are alive and in the moment. When an artist creates a near-perfect work (by whose measure?), people respond to it. I’ve never created something I would consider near-perfect, so I don’t know what that feels like. I have finally come to understand the power of failure though. Failure is the engine of success. It is often failure that provides the motivation required to reach a state of near-perfection. The only true negative aspect of failure is that of giving up. Everything else is a learning experience necessary to keep our endeavors moving along the right path. A painful guiding hand to show us the correct route. I believe it is through failure that we achieve. I have had enough failures up to this point that my path should be illuminated, but it is clear that I still have a lot of failure ahead of me.
Just about everything is a work in progress, kind of like this blog. I view it like a large featureless block of marble waiting to be sculpted into a statue. Each day a little bit more of the marble is chipped away to reveal its true form--what it was always meant to be.
It won't be today, tomorrow, next week, or even this year, but I hope one day to have removed enough layers from within my mind to reveal this blog's true form.
Thanks for reading.
Various art forms share the ability to stir the soul both positively and negatively, which reminds us we are alive and in the moment. When an artist creates a near-perfect work (by whose measure?), people respond to it. I’ve never created something I would consider near-perfect, so I don’t know what that feels like. I have finally come to understand the power of failure though. Failure is the engine of success. It is often failure that provides the motivation required to reach a state of near-perfection. The only true negative aspect of failure is that of giving up. Everything else is a learning experience necessary to keep our endeavors moving along the right path. A painful guiding hand to show us the correct route. I believe it is through failure that we achieve. I have had enough failures up to this point that my path should be illuminated, but it is clear that I still have a lot of failure ahead of me.
Just about everything is a work in progress, kind of like this blog. I view it like a large featureless block of marble waiting to be sculpted into a statue. Each day a little bit more of the marble is chipped away to reveal its true form--what it was always meant to be.
It won't be today, tomorrow, next week, or even this year, but I hope one day to have removed enough layers from within my mind to reveal this blog's true form.
Thanks for reading.
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