Excellence && Time

Change never comes as fast as we want it - Shoe Dog Phil Knight

I keep coming back to this quote from time to time, This quote has had a profound impact on the way I think about certain things and the simplicity of it's meaning baffles me.

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Excellence

If you ask me, I would say that skill is the only currency that signifies social reputation and credibility and we all know that but skills can be easily harbored provided we are disciplined enough, but being exceptionally good at a particular skill or as some may like to project 'being excellent' at something requires a lot more than just discipline, the game is entirely different.

The way I think about things, excellence is something which can never be developed with a structural system, you need to break out of the system in order to truly be exceptionally good at your craft.

I don't intend to disregard system or institutions in any sense, it's just that variables like progress and skills are attributes which are very hard to quantify even harder to foster within a defined set of rules, having tried this myself I can surely attest that I have found more progress outside system rather than Inside and by system I mean anything that comes with hierarchy or a defined set of rules.

There is no clear roadmap to excellence though there are various metrics in which one may assess his/her skills and I have been thinking about this a lot lately.

I have never really thought about excellence much to be honest but when you start defining yourself by the work you do, being really good at what you do starts to matter to you.

Naval perfectly emphasizes on excellence when he correlates it with luck, excellence is directly proportional to opportunities, the more good you are at your craft more opportunities you attract.

but then

Why is it so difficult to become truly good at what you do?

Well I can think of a number of reasons as to why this happens:

• Lack of curiosity
• Lack of time allocation
• Inability to progress further

While all these reasons are worth discussing over depth, I would like to tilt my attention to time and the paradoxical nature of it's dependence with excellence.

Time

Progress is the best indicator of growth and comes very slowly, looking back at Aman from a year ago I certainly can see some progress in me. The thing that's baffles me the most is how time has a direct dependence to how good we can become at our skills, it's simply a matter of time allocation up until a certain threshold.

After having personally felt the need to devote time to being somewhat good, I have realized that it is absolutely impossible for me as an engineer to be good at my work without sitting in front of computer.

Some people bend this dependency with time, by becoming good without allocating enough time which reminds me

There are plenty of guys in this world who we’re no match for, and it’s natural to find people like that amazing. I think being able to dive headfirst into things is a talent in and of itself, and it doesn’t matter what you call them. And it’s not like genius is an insult. But if you’re thinking they’re geniuses from the start, that just means you’ve lost before you even had a match with them. And it’s rude. -Haikyuu

so

How do we become like them?

It's so fascinating to me that the answer to most of my personal questions can be answered by two fundamental entities

• Curiosity
• Time

Curiosity can accelerate the impact of time by 10x. It is difficult to discover our curiosities early on but that's where the paradoxical beauty of time shines. If we give enough time to something we eventually become somewhat curious.(maybe wrong on this one)

I am far from excellent now, but I guess time will take me there someday eventually. knowing what I need and Knowing what I absolutely joyous about are hard reflections about myself.

until then adios my good friend, we will meet soon on another adventure.