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Tuesday Feb 05, 2013
Episode 98: Working vs Planning
Tuesday Feb 05, 2013
Tuesday Feb 05, 2013
I just read a book about being a professional vs an amateur. One point the author made that was interesting is that a professional, no matter how successful she is, studies with a teacher. I thought about that. Tiger Woods, one of the best golfers in the world, has a golf teacher; Sir John Gielgud, one of the best actors of his generation, worked with an acting teacher, too. Another point the author made was that professionals never assume they know everything about their craft. Because they know they don't know everything, they have teachers.
Another item the author pointed out, was that amateurs can always find ways to procrastinate: cleaning their keyboards, organizing piles of paper, taking care of sick children. Professionals, he stated, worked. Which gets me to the planning stages. Amateurs can plan forever. Professionals take what comes and try to make the best of things.
Which gets me back to my bookbinding. I'm planning (ha!) on taking a couple of classes next month. One for rounded back binding (pictures here are not of my doing); and one of making book cloth. The books I've made in a workshop seem to be better than the ones I make by myself. Why is that? Is the presence of a teacher - even if that teacher is not teaching anything remarkably new - enough to raise the level of my bookbinding? Is that why Woods and Gielgud took classes? To improve? Great idea.
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