Monday Musing, 4/29/19

Hello Apprentices--​

A family affair today.

My mom sent me this quote:  The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. –Elbert Hubbard, writer, 1856-1915.

I liked this quote so much, I looked him up, because I was unfamiliar. Turns out he was an anarchist, idolized Whitman, and died—arms linked with his wife so they wouldn’t be parted in the water—aboard the Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German U-Boat.

He had a knack for pithy, provocative quotes.
--God will not look you over for medals, diplomas, or degrees—but for scars.
--Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.
--Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing, and you’ll never be criticized.

All meme-worthy. But back to the greatest mistake… check out the castle in that pic my dad sent me. For several moons now I’ve been hammering this point of rehearsal, practice, mistakes as opportunity, the cost of expertise, the benefit and necessity of repetition. The second pic is yet another Thor-like hammer strike upon this theme (yes, I too saw ENDGAME this past weekend; it’s VERY good; and you shall find no spoilers here!), and is my contribution to this Cannon-family trio of musings. 

Rehearsal demands courage, because rehearsal is 99% “mistakes”.

Those mistakes enable you to present to the audience the performance.

Your ability to rehearse effectively and perform effectively is enhanced only by practice. Which is nothing but focused repetition.

Note the modifier… focused.
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More on that next week.