Everything Is A Practice - by Scott Gilbertson

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A practice is the disciplined repetition of what you know with enough experimentation in that repetition to unlock those things you don’t yet know. It is ever-accumulating, and never-ending. It is sometimes painful, but that is the way. Individual projects may come to an end, but the practices that made them possible do not. You may finish writing a book, or reach the end of a run, or understand how to fix an engine, but there is no point where you’ve written enough, you’ve worked out enough, you’ve learned enough. The practices never end, which means you get to keep improving. The practice leaves a path behind you to show you how far you have come and carves out a path ahead of you to show you where you can go. The practices of your life are your life. They form the path you follow, they are how you become what you want to become, they make you who you are and who the world wants you to be. You are not solely in charge of your practices or the path they form. The world gets a vote too

I don’t think anything I’ve ever written has been as misunderstood as this piece. That’s entirely my failure. Let me be clearer: By practice I do not mean rehearsal. I mean practice as in a thing you do regularly, e.g. the practice of rising early; the practice of daily exercise, etc. There is no finish line. There is no winning, no losing. Everything is a Practice. A practice is the disciplined repetition of what you know with enough experimentation in that repetition to unlock those things you don’t yet know. It is ever-accumulating, and never-ending. It is sometimes

Everything Is A Practice - by Scott Gilbertson

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