Failure or Success

"So purpose is good.
Intention is good.
And even paired with each other, they are impotent without something else...

Think about the clips on TV you've seen from rockets that launch.
The rocket launches and it's not going quickly. In fact it's mercilessly slow getting off the launch pad. Surprisingly slow. Dramatic in power but not speed.
The rocket is a big thing. It's hundreds of feet tall.
And what is taking up the hundreds of feet if the 6 astronauts are in a 20 foot module at the top?

Fuel.
Way over 90%, probably 95-98% of the rocket's weight, purpose, design, job...is wrapped up in FUEL.
Drive..energy...momentum.

Hey have you ever seen a rocket take off, and then take a day or two off along the trajectory out from earth's gravity and THEN try and get out again?
It's not possible.
Why?

The fuel in the bottom 90%+ of the rocket is required to break orbit. Those boosters fall off enroute.
The result?
There is only one result....and it isn't up.

The cool thing is that once the atmosphere has been breached, how much fuel does it take to get to the moon?
Next to none.
Once outside the earth's atmosphere, there is almost no inertia, no gravity.
This is why people look at successful people and often think, "she's got it so easy."
The fact is that she broke the earth's gravity and that took a LOT of fuel. A TON of energy. But once you have momentum, once you have established the ability to control the self, amazing things happen."

- Kevin Hogan
http://www.kevinhogan.com/failure.htm

Expertise

"...the emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert- in anything....Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or twenty hours a week, of practice over ten years...

The ten-thousand-hours theory is consistent with what we know about how the brain learns. Learning requires the assimilation and consolidation of information in neural tissue. The more experiences we have with something, the stronger the memory/learning trace for that experience becomes...

Memory strength is also a function of how much we care about the experience. Neurochemical tags associated with memories mark them for importance, and we tend to code as important things that carry with them a lot of emotion, either positive or negative...Caring may, in part, account for some of the early differences we see in how quickly people acquire new skills..."

- This is your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin

Aristotle: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is then not an act, but a habit."

So let's practice!!

Molenbek Art Center Performance

Hello! Here some nice pictures about the performance with the orchestra on Molenbek Art Center, in the "Fête de l'automne".
Performed by/ Domenico Giustino/ Boris Cosio/ Agostina D'Alessandro
More photos: http://www.bruxel.org/2008/1102_mchc_fete_automne/index.html