The Guitar Player Paradox
I’m intrigued by this observation that we prefer stress over hard focus. My current hypothesis proposes two explanations:
First, the club owner strategy is more predictable — you can’t go wrong working harder, even if its rewards are distilled.
Second, and perhaps more important, hard focus, at first, can be incredibly uncomfortable — so much so that we’d rather accept 12 hour days of regular work than spend 2 hours on intense concentration. The good news is that, as Haruki Murakami taught us, hard focus is a practiced skill. If you improve this ability enough, the guitar player path might eventually seem less onerous.
I plan on exploring this paradox in more detail in the near future, as I wonder if it might hold the key to jump-starting a remarkable life. In the mean time, you should ask yourself a simple question:
Who are you trying to become, the guitar player or the club owner?
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I choose to see this differently. To focus, invest yourself in a single thing seriously does not allow you the luxury of failing gracefully. We know that if we fail our psyche have no where to hide. When we fail with something we focused on singly we face our weakness, our inability to do something. This is scary. This is why some people never show others what they: write,compose,paint,draw, or create in general. We hate to see ourselves in positions of weakness, we hate rejection, we hate failure. We must learn to not be stopped by the voices in our heads that tell us we aren’t good enough. We can not be great if we continue to be paralyzed by our fears!