What Is The Meaning of Your Early Success and/or Failure? (Patreon)

Said Sara Smeaton: "early success is a weak predictor of long-term success". The opposite is also true: long-term success is not indicative of early success. Early failure is a not an impediment to long-term success.

This is good and bad. The good news is that work, works. Deliberate practice works. The "bad" news (it doesn't have to be, but it is if your practice methods suck) is that you're on the hook to practice for life. #lifetimesubscription

Whether this means heaven or hell is completely, 1000% (not a typo) up to you. If practice is fun, you're in heaven all the time. If not...fix your methods.

We live in a "democracy of practice". You can get "elected" to awesome status by practicing a lot (in quantity and quality). But you can also be dethroned. You need to be worthy of the power in order to get the power, and you need to stay worthy to keep it.

To quote myself: "You are never too good for practice. You will never be too good for practice. Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. A lot of people act like — and sincerely believe — that you can “learn” a language and then somehow be done with it. File it away. Done deal. That’s so untrue it’s not even funny. 

You will never be done. You will get better; you will stop sucking, but you will never be “done”. The moment you’re “done” (or think you are) is the moment you start sucking. This game is forever. The internal sub-games are finite, but the game itself is forever. It’s for fun. It’s for keeps. And it’s forever, because: 

“you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. This means vigilant practice and excellent practice habits”." [What Can A Dancer Teach You About Learning Japanese? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time] https://goo.gl/HfT1cO