mastery = animal grace × human focus
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the older men in this thread show you how it is done. no thinking interrupts their motion, effortless, graceful, no wasted energy
like an animal, but only attained after 10,000 hours on the tools
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note they all make their own tools, and some of them make tool making tools
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What you describe here resonates with my experience standing up against some of the old judokas in Australia, dudes who've been black belts for *decades*. They moved through me like they didn't care that I was there. Like I wasn't, even.
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you move digitally, stepwise, they're in the analogue plane beyond calculus
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The only thing I’ve ever been able to do this with is making coffee and tea in the morning. But it doesn’t take as long as you’d think to reprogram for a new environment so I think that actually learning how to do this is itself a skill
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