DABBLING

2020, CO-CREATING, FOCUS, INSPIRATION, MASTERY

DABBLING, 2020 MAY 11

DABBLING

     ~disrupting mastery with haphazard interest

The construction of something first imagined 

can be an exultant achievement. 

Setbacks will occur, requiring modification. This allows that a second effort will yield more streamlined results than the first, and a tenth effort will reveal higher and greater nuances impossible in all earlier attempts. This is how Masters hone their craft: perseverance and attention to detail gained through frequency.

Even repetition, such as placing an object inside a bag, over and over, will yield gains: a direction, a posture, a sequence. Artistic processes are no different. Even when the desired outcome is to produce remarkably different works, the skills necessary, mechanical and ethereal, have still been clarified.

But what about the Jack-Of-All-Trades? Do Dabblers abandon mission when they move from one field of study at another? Do they disrupt their ability to master one thing by having a haphazard interest in many things? Does the sculptor undo the painter? Does the writer undo the musician? Does the mathematician disrupt the farmer?

At what point does moving between

specific activities disrupt the process,

and where is the line at which

one creative form inspires the other?

This depends on the artist.

How do you manage challenge? Can you step back and consider all of the factors, giving a second attempt more merit? How many times will you believe your efforts failed before you abandon a project?

If your attempts are few, have you receded by gaining the wisdom that you and this effort are a bad match (you are not after all, a Flamenco dancer), or have you surrendered to a projected exhaustion attached to doing something well? (You cannot justify the time required to master the Flamenco steps as compared to your enjoyment, or necessity, of the process?)

Knowing self/Self is illuminating, even when we are seeing the smallest fragments at any given time. Think of the last effort you began and then abandoned. First: why did you engage your self in this endeavor? What did you hope to gain or experience? Did you begin with the correct information?

Now, why did you abandon this? Was it too difficult? Was it unsatisfying? Were you lacking natural skills and were unwilling to develop acquired skills? OR: do you choose a new thing to avoid working on an old thing? Do you become hopeless and self-punishing when you are not immediately competent?

It is possible to be competent in many endeavors. Music inspires poetry. Poetry inspires dance. Dance inspires painting. Painting inspires sculpture. Sculpture inspires rock works. Rock works inspire architecture. Architecture inspires math.

So: be a Jack-Of-All-Trades if that is a happy endeavor. Make no excuses for enjoying many ways to express your self. But: be aware of patterns where you behave as a fugitive, running from one endeavor to another. Rather than bringing together the many colors of your talent, you will scatter it, and as it scatters, it scatters your core energy.

Master things or Dabble, but keep your Core organized and energized. You are star matter. Let the universe shine.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil

     Archive:  May 11, 2020

 

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