Practicing 10 hours in a row is a waste. A huge and fat way to believe you are achieving something you are actually not. It’s impossible to stay sane when you practice 10 hours in a row for a month non-stop. What are you? An unhappy machine that has no friends and plays everything perfect? That’s not human.
People need interactions with other people, we need to have fun, read a novel, play Call of Duty. Yes, we need to work our asses off but also keep ourselves mentally and physically healthy so that our brains retain more info when we do practice. (In human amounts of time).
Someone important said 85% of happiness comes from your relationships, not from your personal successes. People matter, and the connection you make with them will open up your opportunities anyway—give that idea a chance.
If practicing 10 hours is a waste, then what is worth doing?
Things worth doing are those that will contribute to your persona or someone else’s by gaining the highest percent of the benefits using the least amount of time.
You’d want to spend your time in the practice room getting the most out of it, to waste it watch the Simpsons, don’t practice. Man! I love that show.
Eating a banana is worth doing, so is buying flowers to your girlfriend. They both provide huge benefits with little amount of time or effort. Some people call it productivity.
Training everyday to reach the mental capacity to practice 5 hours with the mandatory breaks, is extremely worth doing. Considering your health at all times is also worth it since it will help you stay in shape for years to come.
It’s always worth spending on your future.
Spending three years writing in a foreign language and convincing an audience that your posts are worth reading is priceless. More than worth doing it. Only if you don’t spend 12 hours a day for three years to make it happen.
Balance will make sure you don’t burnout.
It will also make sure you enjoy your kid’s childhood, her first recital and her first ballet performance. Balance will help you learn Paganini’s 24 caprices (all of them) the fastest and smartest way possible. It will make sure you are good enough to make your local bowling team and have time to go see a mariachi performance.
All the things you balance work for one another.
Those two hours you spend at the Mexican restaurant listening to mariachi music will expand your music horizons. Making the bowling team teaches you perseverance and technical training. Being there for your kid will help you understand the importance of support, plus every time she looks at you from the stage something inside will lighten. Playing Call of Duty will help maintain your social life with your buddies. Reading a novel will expand your imagination and watching the Simpsons, well, that won’t add much to your life but will make you laugh—and for an instance, you’ll forget about problems.
Organize, schedule, keep a balance, stay human, do what’s worth doing, connect with people and watch the Simpsons. All of the above are the right combination to real success (except for the Simpsons 
).
For the empire!
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