A lesson in zen

Thursday, Jun 06, 2002

Here's an exercise: Take up painting. Get good at it. then start working on a huge canvas, planning, painting, for months. Now, you're 80% done and you have to paint the last 20% in 5% of the time.

To go fast is to create an inconsistant work, since the speed will show. To proceed at the same pace will leave part of your masterwork unfinished.

Letting go is harder for me to do than to do a sloppy job, even if nobody knows but me.

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