If we’re living our passion, then every hour is another hour along the path. An runner can still be practicing as a runner whilst not running – eating, resting, learning about nutrition, thinking about running, tactics etc are all steps towards mastery. Almost every hour perhaps – can’t see partying, dating and alcohol as contributing – there again happiness is important!

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I think particularly of Stanley Cup Hockey winning teams.

It is not that the other team is not incredibly worthy.

So many trophy years, omg, drooling now, the BEST years, are when the contest goes to 7 games. It is in a manner all about winning ONE GAME.

But what I see after watching hockey for years is that it is the depth of the bench. It is about the 3 months of playing at that intensity level endurance that makes a team win. It is about rigorous conditioning (think 10,000 hours) together as a team that comes out in that final round of Stanley Cup competition.

As we say in my family, no blood, play on. A Stanley Cup player who is… injured during a game will return to the ice and PLAY. The only way they don’t return is if they have to be hospitalized.

In a way, when we pursue mastery, by the time we pass 1,000 hours, people with jobs frankly think we are …. weird. “oh you’re a workaholic.”

No, you poor thing, you are just chucking your life away on something day in and day out which you loathe.

I am doing what I LOVE all the time. Even when I also scrub the toilet bowl.

By the time we pass the 5,000 hour mark, man, we are in the WEIRDO wacked, you are CRAZY, man level.

Yes. I am. I am crazy about and passionate about what I do.

Others see what we are doing. Oh you should get more sleep. You should go to bed. You shouldn’t work such crazy hours.

I remember the Pittsburgh Penguins/Philadelphia Flyers playing one of the longest games in history (May 4, 2000). Oh they should have just thrown in the towel. They should have called the game. Blah, blah, blah, it doesn’t matter. Of COURSE it matters. It was about MASTERY.

That took GRIT. It is not until you hunker down into the semi-finals, having played for 2.5 months already at that level that real grit, training, and resilience show forth. It’s like puking after you row crew. It’s not til you row til you throw that you even enter the beginning of the outer region of the realm of mastery.

92:01 minutes of OVERTIME in that game. Not The GAME itself, FIVE OVERTIME periods on top of 3 periods in regulation time. THAT’s Mastery. Most of us don’t have it and the DRIVE to do it.

May we all find inside ourselves what we were put here for to become Masters Of to let our true GLORY emerge and shine forth – for ourselves and for those we are to be the inspiring examples to.

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After 1000 hours, we kind of know the lingo and all the obvious isses that need to be avoided and those that need to be done perfectly. But we are a long way from the nuance.

I have heard it described as the path from Unconcious Incompetence to Conscious Incompetence to Concious Competence to Unconscious Comptence…

this is a fascinating subject to me…

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