What's the best way to find you niche in magic? By natural selection or by brute force or by something in between?
Here are the ideas and some metaphor worthy of Mr. Miyagi:
The first:
Learn as much as I can. Know about every sleight, every move, every trick...
Try and completely saturate my system with everything I can, overwhelm myself with everything I can get my hands on.
Take note: one would not learn everything, but would expand his horizons as much as he could.
Like writing a short story, write everything you can. and then go back through the mess and dig up the good parts, the one good percent of it all. Apply polish to it and present it.
I want to to try and see everything that's been done, an obviouisly impossible task, and then decide my place in it all. Hopefully, I'll get one or two good tricks.
Try a bit of everything and build on what works.
The idea is not to learn to play every song ever composed on the piano, but to listen to as many as I can and find a niche.
Throw a stone at a target enough times and you'll eventually hit it...
The Second:
Pull back and take everything I have and cut it down to three good tricks that I'll perfect. Then, slowly, move on to other things, one-at-a-time, while maintaining what I already know.
Bulid a castle brick by brick.
Focus everything on the one--all for one. Do nothing but the pass until I own the pass, until I am the undisputed master of the pass. Then learn the lepaul spread.
The tip of the pyramid is supported by all of the stones beneath it (ooh, that was cheesy...).
The first idea revolves more around dropping oneself into the world of magic and going with the flow until you learn to swim. By watching everyone else swim, one will soon become a master himself, by learning what strokes work, which muscles to use, etc.
The second idea revolves more around looking at the designs for a motorboat engine and building it from scratch. It's something powerful that will cut through the water.
What's worked for you?
Here are the ideas and some metaphor worthy of Mr. Miyagi:
The first:
Learn as much as I can. Know about every sleight, every move, every trick...
Try and completely saturate my system with everything I can, overwhelm myself with everything I can get my hands on.
Take note: one would not learn everything, but would expand his horizons as much as he could.
Like writing a short story, write everything you can. and then go back through the mess and dig up the good parts, the one good percent of it all. Apply polish to it and present it.
I want to to try and see everything that's been done, an obviouisly impossible task, and then decide my place in it all. Hopefully, I'll get one or two good tricks.
Try a bit of everything and build on what works.
The idea is not to learn to play every song ever composed on the piano, but to listen to as many as I can and find a niche.
Throw a stone at a target enough times and you'll eventually hit it...
The Second:
Pull back and take everything I have and cut it down to three good tricks that I'll perfect. Then, slowly, move on to other things, one-at-a-time, while maintaining what I already know.
Bulid a castle brick by brick.
Focus everything on the one--all for one. Do nothing but the pass until I own the pass, until I am the undisputed master of the pass. Then learn the lepaul spread.
The tip of the pyramid is supported by all of the stones beneath it (ooh, that was cheesy...).
The first idea revolves more around dropping oneself into the world of magic and going with the flow until you learn to swim. By watching everyone else swim, one will soon become a master himself, by learning what strokes work, which muscles to use, etc.
The second idea revolves more around looking at the designs for a motorboat engine and building it from scratch. It's something powerful that will cut through the water.
What's worked for you?
