Trends expire like milk. Craft ages like a good pair of boots.
CREATIVITY
CREATIVITY
Two different things get called success and they behave in opposite ways over time. Attention attaches to whatever is current and leaves on the same schedule, while skill accumulates quietly and is worth more in five years than it is today. Chasing the first consumes exactly the hours that would have built the second.
Look at what your practice time is going into and ask which of the two it is. Keep part of the week for the slow kind, the part nobody is currently rewarding. What you can do outlasts what is popular.
Are you chasing what is popular or building something lasting?
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