As you delve further in further into my cave searching for the source of the rhythmic pounding and ringing of metal you finally turnna corner and see me, blighted and sightless, bent over a glowing anvil, hammering a mithril CD emblazoned with the runes STEELY DAN PRETZEL LOGIC on its face
“Practising invites a kind of intimacy, a moment of mindfulness that we can cut and paste into our daily routines. Once we appreciate that practice is not an endgame, our ego falls away and we enter the experience with complete commitment. Csikszentmihalyi talks about this state as an autotelic experience, the word deriving from the Greek autos, meaning self, and telos meaning goal. Our inner amateur is therefore self-directed. As Aristotle reminds us, amateur musicians define their own goals and their own enjoyment.”
— Xenia Hanusiak, Feel free to stop striving: learn to relish being an amateur


