The 30 Steps to Mastery
I knew I’d come back to this over and over again and didn’t want to risk losing it to the fickle memory of the web. By Onjibonrenat at Ben Casnocha’s:
- Start
- Keep going.
- You think you’re starting to get the hang of it.
- You see someone else’s work and feel undeniable misery.
- Keep going.
- Keep going.
- You feel like maybe, possibly, you kinda got it now.
- You don’t.
- Keep going.
- You ask for someone else’s opinion–their response is standoffish, though polite.
- Depression.
- Keep going.
- Keep going.
- You ask someone else’s opinion–their response is favorable.
- They have no idea what they’re talking about.
- Keep going.
- You feel semi-kinda favorable and maybe even a little proud of what you can do now.
- Self-loathing chastisement.
- Depression
- Keep going.
- You ask someone else’s opinion–they respond quite favorably.
- They’re still wrong.
- Depression.
- Keep going though you can’t possibly imagine why.
- Become restless.
- Receive some measure of praise from a trustworthy opinion.
- They’re still fucking wrong (Right?)
- Keep going just because there’s nothing else to do.
- Mastery arrives, you mistake it for a gust of wind.
- Keep Fucking Going.