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We must illuminate the ego’s ruses and see how it sabotages our progress. I think that everyone would agree with this concept of practicing and playing, so why won’t we do it? As I said before, it is because we are in a hurry - we need to sound good today, in our quest for a good self-image. We aren’t in touch with our own inner beauty and so we seek it in our level of play. Self-centeredness, which some musicians suffer from in the extreme, is the wall between us and mastery.
Effortless Mastery
Kenny Werner
People aren’t everything, they are the only thing.
To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. To learn, in other words, is an act of deep work. If you’re comfortable going deep, you’ll be comfortable mastering the increasingly complex systems and skills needed to thrive in our economy. If you instead remain one of the many for whom depth is uncomfortable and distraction ubiquitous, you shouldn’t expect these systems and skills to come easily to you.
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