When Should We Stop Polishing?

WHEN SHOULD WE STOP POLISHING?

I’m re-reading the ART OF PRACTICE book, because instinct tells me there is something valuable for me, something that some part of me doesn’t want to “get.” I’ve now identified about 30 core ideas and clumped them into five categories:

1. How to do it.
2. In what order to practice elements
3. How intensely to practice
4. Which sort of skills this works for (how to determine if this program is appropriate for you)
5. The inner game: how to FEEL about your practice.

In other words, your belief systems, mental syntax, and use of physiology. Modeling. Trying to extract the most important aspects is critical to me, the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHY, HOW, WHEN of it.

Once upon a time, I read THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH by Wallace D. Wattles. The story was that this was a foundational work for THE SECRET, a book and practice that annoys me, because its adherants usually seem to believe that “wanting” something enough will bring it to them. I have one question for them, and an answer:

Q: when do you know you want something enough?

A: When you get your butt off the couch and WORK for it fanatically.

(this is, of course, why you need to choose your goals very carefully, so that you can throw yourself into them completely without fear of imbalance or hurting others).