A) Identify one thing you love that is really hard for you.
B) Do it
C) Repeat B a lot.
B) Do it
C) Repeat B a lot.
Then
you move from incompetent to competent. From competent to mastery. From
mastery to virtuosity. [Thanks to my friend, Mark Ford, for breaking it
for me into these four categories. It’s very true.] — James Altucher.
Virtuosity.
I
saw it and thought about it for a bit. Why is it so termed, this degree
of excellence? Okay, surely the root word is ‘virtue.’ What, then, is
‘virtue’?
Good
moral standards, right? And then you think further, and realise that
virtue is ‘vertical’s’ cousin. ‘Vertical’ is what we know as the
upright, what leads upward, heavenward.
Is
it a stretch, then, to say the highest form of excellence, the
‘virtuoso’ kind, is the performance that gives God glory? That shows
forth God’s goodness as the giver of the gifts, the talents, the life,
the strength, the wisdom, and all?
Surely,
there’s a reason why the winner of the trophy lifts it upward at the
end— not necessarily to thank the fans but to show the reward of the
work to his Maker above.
Virtuosity.
