{"id":197,"date":"2010-07-08T18:31:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T17:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-07-08T18:31:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T17:31:49","slug":"doing-the-work-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/2010\/07\/doing-the-work-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing the work first"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nothing more is required of the pupil, at first, than that he should conscientiously copy what the teacher shows him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s necessary to do the work first. And I&#8217;m beginning to think that more than that, it&#8217;s necessary to enjoy the work first. The work <em>is<\/em> the thing. The tips and the tricks, they are just dressing; they come <em>from<\/em> expertise they don&#8217;t lead to it. Even when people talk about the 10,000 hours it takes to master something, it&#8217;s as if they are saying &#8220;I just need to get these 10,000 hours out of the way and then I&#8217;ll be done&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing more is required of the pupil, at first, than that he should conscientiously copy what the teacher shows him. &#8211; Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel It&#8217;s necessary to do the work first. And I&#8217;m beginning to think that more than that, it&#8217;s necessary to enjoy the work first. The work is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}