Attunement or trust in their abilities (Carol dwecks world it's growth mindset), in josh waitzkin world it's about the dynamic pursuit of the practice.... The flow state. Christopher Alexander books around pattern language is interesting with this too for old buildings!
In your travelings of meeting these owners, and talking with them, do you find similar events that happened in childhood that make them enjoy the maintenance of their work? For instance, does the Japanese Tea caddy and German precision engineer have similar childhoods that cultivated this drive for perpetuating and maintaining with joy?
Yeah, good questions. Personally, I don't see a similarity other than a them finding things deeply interesting and pursuing nurturing them - a garden, a pursuit in sport, building a team etc. I think the big one for me is that a lot of the pursuits are practice-based, feedback is crucial and apprenticeship based in many cases. Think of investing, entrepreneurs and physical maintenance on cars, manufacturing plants (engineers), houses, gardens - a system of some sort. What do you think?
Oddly enough im on a chapter about this repeated pattern, assembly line, or practice thought. Most people assume that the repeated patterns are counted in ones head and boredom ensues.
However, when you are honing a craft of any kind, counting of how many times you, say, repeat a song you are learning on an instrument isn't true. You are never counting how many times you retry, instead you are repeating for continual improvement, each time you repeat you are enjoying the next try not because you are counting the times, but because you are striving for ever greater improvement. Slowly. Slowly you hear/see/feel/sense some small improvement.
It sounds like they all have this attunement to listening for the small improvements, not counting their tries but listening for their successes?
Attunement or trust in their abilities (Carol dwecks world it's growth mindset), in josh waitzkin world it's about the dynamic pursuit of the practice.... The flow state. Christopher Alexander books around pattern language is interesting with this too for old buildings!
Really great read! Thank you for sharing!
In your travelings of meeting these owners, and talking with them, do you find similar events that happened in childhood that make them enjoy the maintenance of their work? For instance, does the Japanese Tea caddy and German precision engineer have similar childhoods that cultivated this drive for perpetuating and maintaining with joy?
Yeah, good questions. Personally, I don't see a similarity other than a them finding things deeply interesting and pursuing nurturing them - a garden, a pursuit in sport, building a team etc. I think the big one for me is that a lot of the pursuits are practice-based, feedback is crucial and apprenticeship based in many cases. Think of investing, entrepreneurs and physical maintenance on cars, manufacturing plants (engineers), houses, gardens - a system of some sort. What do you think?
Im listening to the Craftsman by Richard Sennett.
Oddly enough im on a chapter about this repeated pattern, assembly line, or practice thought. Most people assume that the repeated patterns are counted in ones head and boredom ensues.
However, when you are honing a craft of any kind, counting of how many times you, say, repeat a song you are learning on an instrument isn't true. You are never counting how many times you retry, instead you are repeating for continual improvement, each time you repeat you are enjoying the next try not because you are counting the times, but because you are striving for ever greater improvement. Slowly. Slowly you hear/see/feel/sense some small improvement.
It sounds like they all have this attunement to listening for the small improvements, not counting their tries but listening for their successes?