{"id":1872,"date":"2009-08-28T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2020-11-01T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T17:43:35","slug":"play-it-again-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/play-it-again-sam\/","title":{"rendered":"Play It Again, Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things Malcolm Gladwell discovered after researching outstanding achievers for his book\u00a0Outliers<\/em><\/strong> is, \u201cWhat we call talent is really the desire to practice.\u201d He\u2019s not the first person to point that out.<\/p>\n

Three years ago, Tiger Woods told the audience of 60 Minutes<\/em> that he\u2019d been working with a coach to change his game and hadn\u2019t mastered it yet, but said, \u201cI am willing to lose in order to get better.\u201d Then there\u2019s my all-time favorite observation from Mick Jagger who said, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to sing everyday so you can build up to being like, you know, absolutely brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n

The willingness to sing every day in order to get better is as important to entrepreneurial success as it is to selling out concerts or winning golf trophies. Yet many adults recoil at the thought of practice, thinking that it leads to boredom. That\u2019s only true if what we\u2019re practicing doesn\u2019t come from our passion.<\/p>\n

What may also not be obvious is that we\u2019re all practicing daily and whatever we practice most is what we master. We can excel at stinginess or generosity, originality or mediocrity, boredom or adventure. It\u2019s just a matter of where we\u2019re putting in our time and effort.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been thinking about the power of repetition since many of the people who ordered copies of the updated
\n
\nMaking a Living Without a Job<\/a><\/em><\/strong> had already read the original version. I decided to send an advance reading copy to Sandy Dempsey, who I knew was intimately acquainted with the book, to see what she thought. She sent an e-mail after she\u2019d read about 50 pages raving about the changes. Then she wrote this review in her
\nDreaming Cafe<\/a> mailing.<\/p>\n

I’ve had a sneak peak at the newly revised <\/em>Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways for Creating Work That You Love<\/em><\/strong> by Barbara Winter and it is going to knock your socks off. I am blown away and even though I have read the original numerous times, the new edition has so many new stories, ideas and resources to inspire, my head is spinning.<\/em><\/p>\n

I even thought about sending a copy to the President. He could use it as a blueprint to empower and inspire the nation – a nation that was founded on the entrepreneurial spirit. <\/em><\/p>\n

In reality this book should be mandatory reading in every high school and college and every adult education program This book could change your life!!<\/em><\/p>\n

Needless to say, Sandy\u2019s review knocked my socks off and I was immensely grateful.<\/p>\n

I also realize, of course, that someone who reads this book before they begin their joyfully jobless journey will notice very different things than they would a year or two after opening their business. To paraphrase Clifton Fadiman, \u201cWhen you reread a book and find more in it it\u2019s not because there\u2019s more in the book. It\u2019s because there\u2019s more in you.\u201d<\/p>\n

While we\u2019ve all heard that practice makes perfect, that\u2019s not quite true. Practice makes permanent, but we can only get better if we\u2019re paying attention while we do it. Then we begin to notice where our practice is leading us. We discover only weeks after starting a yoga practice that we can turn our heads farther when backing up the car. Or we find that our fifth media interview is smoother than our first. Sometimes we see that we\u2019re farther along than we thought and sometimes it shows us we need to practice more diligently.<\/p>\n

Are you willing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things Malcolm Gladwell discovered after researching outstanding achievers for his book\u00a0Outliers is, \u201cWhat we call talent is really the desire to practice.\u201d He\u2019s not the first person to point that out. Three years ago, Tiger Woods told the audience of 60 Minutes that he\u2019d been working with a coach to change his…<\/p>\n

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