It's different strokes for different folks. His article highlights this. For example: rapping onstage is rapping onstage. But writing for the literary journal is not writing a novel.
To use a martial arts analogy, the rapping is kumite (sparring). You are working directly at your goal. In kumite, your feedback is kicks in the face. The article writing is kata (forms). Your are working at a parallel goal whose skills are transferrable. In kata, your feedback is angry shouting from Sensei. Either way, you get feedback and you improve.
The article's point is not method, motivation, kata, or kumite.
Rather, it is focus and measurement. Attack a precise, difficult, measurable goal, to the exclusion of all else, until victory is achieved. Then Sensei will stop shouting, and your opponent will yield.
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It's different strokes for different folks. His article highlights this. For example: rapping onstage is rapping onstage. But writing for the literary journal is not writing a novel.
To use a martial arts analogy, the rapping is kumite (sparring). You are working directly at your goal. In kumite, your feedback is kicks in the face. The article writing is kata (forms). Your are working at a parallel goal whose skills are transferrable. In kata, your feedback is angry shouting from Sensei. Either way, you get feedback and you improve.
The article's point is not method, motivation, kata, or kumite.
Rather, it is focus and measurement. Attack a precise, difficult, measurable goal, to the exclusion of all else, until victory is achieved. Then Sensei will stop shouting, and your opponent will yield.