Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious. ~~John Coltrane
If Since an early age, or better yet starting anew Now, You take activities in Your Life seriously and invest Yourself and follow Your Heart. This will inevitably make life richer...
Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious. ~~John Coltrane (famous jazz Musician)
This perfectly summates the exact attitude to have in a life which is nothing but a success.
When You were an adolescent You may have had the hard earned privilege of learning a musical instrument, or almost everyone has undergone the experience of learning to read and write. These are mediums that transduce through ‘hard skills,’ discipline, patience, time, and resistance practice all to build willpower and earn a ‘hard Skill’ [remember that I point to Reading, Writing, Speaking and Meditation/Goal-Structure as the 4 quintessential ‘hard skills’ for Mastery and achievement of the ‘Bag’ in any domain]. And those Who excel at Music, Math, or Humanities have done so through a process of learning to play, calculate and read and write; with much practice and working through boredom. To the point that the Skill brings pleasure as practice becomes rewarding and a positive feedback loop develops as Robert Greene describes: practice brings skill, skill brings enjoyment, which leads to further practice and further skill as the neural networks grow stronger.
It is noted in ‘1 Kings’ of the Old Testament that King Solomon knew 3,000 Proverbs and 1,000 Songs. It is not something that I can separate in My mind as I love Music and Language and I believe the words in a song (a song as a living-moving poem) synergize with My verbal ability. I have composed 500+ Song and Song Parts in My life.
With this John Coltrane gives the lesson in a few words that I had to put My finger On in describing My Ethos for life activities...
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