I really liked the theme here JP of everything you've learned before counts as you seek to do other things. I've always believed that nothing we learn or experience is ever wasted and sometimes it shows up in unexpected ways, so it's all worth it.
Awesome piece, JP! I missed when we could write long paragraphs and that be okay. But with people’s attention spans we have to learn jk to break up our writing into the formatting that works these days.
if you see my blog articles from 2022, they have big paragraphs because I was writing educational material high-quality like a medical textbook. even some of my articles in 2023, had longer paragraphs.. now we have had to adjust and adapt.
Thank you for writing this, JP! I subscribe to the longer-form attention span you describe here. As a lover of books and a product of the times before attention dwindled, this piece resonates.
I loved the statement where 10,000 hours feels like a life sentence. That feels so true. But when you consider all the experience earned and life lived, the 10,000 becomes understandable and, in some ways, embraced. Does the 10,000 hours give you cred? The Chef did not think so. But what makes all the difference is the audit and the recognition that you are not really starting from zero. Great piece, JP - and a great reminder that there is more available to you than you might have thought.
I really liked the theme here JP of everything you've learned before counts as you seek to do other things. I've always believed that nothing we learn or experience is ever wasted and sometimes it shows up in unexpected ways, so it's all worth it.
Awesome piece, JP! I missed when we could write long paragraphs and that be okay. But with people’s attention spans we have to learn jk to break up our writing into the formatting that works these days.
Thanks, Jess. Same here. Just adjusted to how people read now.
if you see my blog articles from 2022, they have big paragraphs because I was writing educational material high-quality like a medical textbook. even some of my articles in 2023, had longer paragraphs.. now we have had to adjust and adapt.
Thank you for writing this, JP! I subscribe to the longer-form attention span you describe here. As a lover of books and a product of the times before attention dwindled, this piece resonates.
Appreciate that, Kendra. I’m right there with you. I still love sitting down with a good book.
I loved the statement where 10,000 hours feels like a life sentence. That feels so true. But when you consider all the experience earned and life lived, the 10,000 becomes understandable and, in some ways, embraced. Does the 10,000 hours give you cred? The Chef did not think so. But what makes all the difference is the audit and the recognition that you are not really starting from zero. Great piece, JP - and a great reminder that there is more available to you than you might have thought.
Thanks Patrick. You nailed it. The hours don’t give you cred on their own. Nobody sees them. The audit is what turns them into something usable.
So, I have about 640,000 hrs of experience.
Go figure!
When I worked at Auto Trader in sales, my first cold call was never to sell, it was for the advertising decision maker to get to know me.
I always left the publication at the dealership. And I would go back, weekly.
One manager called me tenacious, however, it was praise regarding what I did to eventually have them place some ads.
At that rate, you skipped mastery and went straight to legend!! Seriously though, Ken, that kind of follow-through is a lost art.