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Balancing is something you can spend 10,000 hours on. Think that tightrope walker across the twin towers. To balance well means to understand your world well enough that you can see the precise direction everyone is coming from.

A shitty balancer can only distinguish between "bad" and "good". Like a driver who can only turn in 180% degree jerks left and right.

The more fine grained your balancing, the more you see those who are "near" you in resonance. You can convert slight-enemies into friends and overtime convert even the most hateful into a friend.

E.g. I see someone stabbed a spear at me but it seemed halfhearted and was purposely aiming for my shield. I too don't want to kill the guy. We recognize our similarity because we were both sensitive enough to feel this. Vs blindly following 'kill the enemy!'.

It's what makes japanese culture so interesting as well. The tendency to go so deep into small niche subjects and discover so much more about them than we thought possible. In a world where we squeeze out all the magic (to sell) they find divinity in the mundane.

Specialization is necessary to the point where you understand what high balance is and the amount of work it takes to have it. If you've never 'mastered' something, it's probably because you've never pushed through difficulty. Instead flitting from novel hobby to novel hobby.

You get frustrated whenever the small subtle details start appearing, when your motivation is strained. Getting a perfect body & math are two common scenarios where you decide *not* to push through the difficulty.

The experience of having pushed through a seemingly impossible barrier is a rite of passage to demonstrate knowledge of the subtle. It's why olympic athletes and war heroes and great CEOs and politicians often have a similar 'feel' to them. They're all doing the same 'job'.