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If we left writing the way we leave many things after trying for a month or 3 months or 3 days or a week, thinking we don't need the talent, most of us would not be writing. As an aside, probably these days most people just type.

Having learned to write, ride a bicycle, play the guitar, things that take some time helps as supports when going gets tough later on in tasks which have a learning curve.

Chris Guillebeau talks about the four burners theory – family, friends, health and work being the four burners. To quote the original : "The gist is that in order to be successful you have to cut off one of your burners. And in order to be really successful you have to cut off two. "

It is known how most professional musicians have a childhood spent in hours of solitude with just their instrument. Some of us have childhoods without much family relations or friends for one reason or the other. For me, i feel that really improves your skill burner. I don't know if there are other prerequisites which are needed to make sure the kid turns to skills and learning instead of something else. Curiosity maybe a prerequisite. Later on you may even have characteristics which a medical model psychologist can label as symptoms of schizophrenia or something else.

Forced or otherwise, cutting off the burners and getting the skill burner going seems to be good enough to forget what one lost because of the absence of the other two burners. Each of us have different lives after all. What to do Accept.

When the family and friends burner is off, it even starts feeling like you are entitled to have the skill burner running full and its effects. Sort of like tapas – single minded focusing and pleasing the god or goddess. Even if there is no god or goddess to be pleased, tapas does help you break through thresholds in skill, keep the mind from giving you alternate options and really going for the skill instead.

Seth Godin has a post on something similar.

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