Well yes 10,000 hours is a symptom not a cause. What I do to assess my progress is constantly compare my work with the greatest I can find, cry my eyes out, pick myself up off the floor, make some adjustments and carry on. To avoid falling into automatic patterns that will lock me into a specific achievement level, I completely rebuild how I do *everything* every two years. This year Ive added a 40-channel SSL analog console to the studio to improve both tracking and mixing. I have automated and templated off all the repetitive tedium and built a framework that lets me focus on the things that make a difference. Looking at the problem from different angles keeps me alert. If I were an artist I would do covers frequently. They would hurl me out of my safety zone (as the odd requirements of my clients often do) and allow me to compare my performance directly with the original. They would get me used to doing something that good, and make me expect it of my originals. We often protect our egos by avoiding direct comparisons with better work. That keeps us where we are rather than shaming us into fixing things. I have ample reason to be both proud and ashamed every week. Success requires a certain emotional stamina, and I think once you develop it you start to crave exercising it and the 10,000 hours go by pretty quickly. brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/01/22/daniel-goleman-focus-10000-hours-myth/
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 19:10:37 +0000
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