Let's say you want to learn a dance. And you want to be good at it.
What should you do?
The very first thing you need is your will to do it.
Next, you need to learn the dance of your choice. The learning involves two aspects.
Aspect One: You need to learn what to do. It is knowledge aspect. A Dance is culturally defined and has certain rules. A Dance has the dance-specific ways of doing. You need instructions or study. As it concerns brain, smart ones have an advantage on this aspect.
Aspect Two: You need to move your body to achieve "the dance-specific ways of doing". Since your body usage is something of a habit, you want to develop good habit, which takes repetition and focus. It takes patience.
Since dance is a matter of using your body, some take it very personal. Your body is the only thing in this world that is inseparably connected to you. Sure, it is personal, because it is you.
It may not be all fun as you originally thought. But your enduring will or passion can get you through the learning process.
As I think above, I realized that how similar the dance learning process is to process of life itself.
We were born without knowing a thing about this world. We suck at everything at first. We were only equipped with instincts innate to our body.
As we grow, we form our perception and understanding for this world. Pretty much all of them are told by someone else still. Guidance, teaching, mentoring, all provides us directions or explanations. They can be right, or they can be wrong. Your growth can influence your perception, and it can help you to distinguish the rights and wrongs in what they say. Our will and passion fuel us to do something. Our knowledge and instruction (guidance) tell us what to do next. But we need to physically move through it in a very personal manner.
Thus life process is like learning a dance.
Eventually, only a handful comes up with something that expands our perception and understanding. They might be an equivalent of great dancers, or any other "Greats" who create something new. I don't think this is for everyone. You can settle where you feel comfortable, and it is your choice.
Really, when some of the "top dancers" do a cool move in their dance, soon there will be a lot of imitators, and the new move becomes a standard move in the dance. We can even identify the moves popular in 2005, 2006 etc, and who might have started the popularity.
Boy, dancing is so human.
