Mastery
I have been thinking about mastery for a couple of weeks, and I just want to get this off of my chest. I have heard that to become a master at something you need to spend 10,000 hours practicing it. I have also heard a story that an Asian master artist said to draw 1000 blades of grass to become an artist. One day I was in the studio to help run bits for Fritz Dreisbach. He took me over to a bare patch of concrete and began to draw while he told me his plan. "I was taking a shit, when I thought about this bowl....blah blah blah". Here is a man that literally eats, sleeps, and shits glass art. I once heard a professional video gamer say that as a professional they train and practice so they don't have to think about their decisions; that they will have more instinctive reactions in the game. After watching some teachers in training teach some classes this spring, it finally became clear to me what mastery is. Mastery is the knowledge and understanding of an activity or sy...