AMATEURS AND EXPERTS
All great discoveries are made by amateurs.
It always happens that when you start new work, you are very creative,
you are deeply involved, your whole being is in it. Then by
and by, as you become acquainted with the territory, rather than
being inventive and creative you start being repetitive. This is natural,
because the more skilled you become in any work, the more
repetitive you become. Skill is repetitive.
So all great discoveries are made by amateurs, because a skilled
person has too much at stake. If something new happens, what will
happen to the old skill? The person has learned for years and now
has become an expert. So experts never discover anything; they
never go beyond the limit of their expertise. On the one hand, they
become more and more skillful, and on the other hand they become
more and more dull and the work seems to be a drag. Now there is
nothing new that can be a thrill to them-they already know what is
going to happen, they know what they are going to do; there is no
surprise in it.
So here is the lesson: It is good to attain to skill, but it is not good to
settle with it forever. Whenever the feeling arises in you that now the
thing is looking stale, change it. Invent something, add something
new, delete something old. Again be free from the pattern-that
means be free from the skill-again become an amateur. It needs
courage and guts, to become an amateur again, but that's how life
becomes beautiful.
All great discoveries are made by amateurs.
It always happens that when you start new work, you are very creative,
you are deeply involved, your whole being is in it. Then by
and by, as you become acquainted with the territory, rather than
being inventive and creative you start being repetitive. This is natural,
because the more skilled you become in any work, the more
repetitive you become. Skill is repetitive.
So all great discoveries are made by amateurs, because a skilled
person has too much at stake. If something new happens, what will
happen to the old skill? The person has learned for years and now
has become an expert. So experts never discover anything; they
never go beyond the limit of their expertise. On the one hand, they
become more and more skillful, and on the other hand they become
more and more dull and the work seems to be a drag. Now there is
nothing new that can be a thrill to them-they already know what is
going to happen, they know what they are going to do; there is no
surprise in it.
So here is the lesson: It is good to attain to skill, but it is not good to
settle with it forever. Whenever the feeling arises in you that now the
thing is looking stale, change it. Invent something, add something
new, delete something old. Again be free from the pattern-that
means be free from the skill-again become an amateur. It needs
courage and guts, to become an amateur again, but that's how life
becomes beautiful.
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