If you want to build a ship, don’t summon
people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs and organize the work,
rather teach people the yearning for the wide and boundless ocean. Attributed
to Antoine De Saint – Exupery
First teach passion, then teach investment. Look at anyone who does something really well (guitar, paintings, designing buildings, cooking delicious food, organizing spaces, etc) and get to know their story. I'm willing to bet that at first they just dabbled with the thing they now excel at, they learned to love it through playing with it. How to master it, perfect it, create other things like it then became easier because their love for that thing motivated them.
I think about authors. Writers have to first be readers. First they had to fall in love with reading and the written word before they could craft a piece of work themselves.
Passion comes before the work.
First teach passion, then teach investment. Look at anyone who does something really well (guitar, paintings, designing buildings, cooking delicious food, organizing spaces, etc) and get to know their story. I'm willing to bet that at first they just dabbled with the thing they now excel at, they learned to love it through playing with it. How to master it, perfect it, create other things like it then became easier because their love for that thing motivated them.
I think about authors. Writers have to first be readers. First they had to fall in love with reading and the written word before they could craft a piece of work themselves.
Passion comes before the work.
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