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"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even attempted."



"A beginner practices until they get it right, a master practices until they can't get it wrong."


> "A beginner practices until they get it right, a master practices until they can't get it wrong."

You can get to the point where no one can see any mistakes. It appears perfect... But not to you. The only way to get to that point is to never be satisfied with your own performance, it could always have been a bit better, you could see that small error (or more likely--those small errors) that no one else could see.

Ayrton Senna talked about trying to drive the perfect lap using this anology: "It is like trying to tie your necktie so that both ends are exactly the same length; experience and practice say that you can do it--but you can't."


Although there is a sort of dual "… until they can make their errors beautiful" or something. If you're good enough, it doesn't matter if you make mistakes, because you can turn those mistakes into good things just as quickly as you could have constructed the original correctly.


It does depend on the medium though, for example painting is pretty forgiving while glass blowing is not at all.




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