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I learnt since many years ago that the easiest and fastest way to master anything is by adding it into the daily habit and ritual. To make time to do it every single day, no matter how small it is. And it is always about mastering the very basic skill that build the foundation to the overall character of the appropriate skill.

When I wanted to learn English, I made it a habit to write and speak in English everyday for certain time. When I wanted to write better, I wrote anything everyday. When I wanna understand myself better, I spare some time to sit alone with myself everyday for 30 minutes at least. When I stuck with creative idea, I do any creative activity daily. It's always been done that way including at work.

The first thing that I always asked any new apprentice or worker at my studio was to make 500 perfect round end using steel and iron pins (they are some of the hardest metals around which are hard to be shaped).

Some of them usually stopped and argued that their round pins were perfect already. And I always said, "I know, but what we aim is not the perfect round, we have a tool to make the perfect round pin easily everytime. What we aim is for your wrist and your eyes to master it till it became an instinct."

How much pressure should you use to hold and bend the pin until it shaped perfectly without scratching or breaking the coating? How should you move your wrist to create so many pins fast without hurting it? How long should you cut the pin to create perfect round for the beads with small opening VS beads with big opening?

It might be confusing, but it all made sense once they've dealt with other materials that need extra care such as crystals, soft metal alloy, or thin wire, and then all those instinct training will be fruitful.

This time, I am making myself to read more. I aim for 65 - 100 pages a day, but I still take as little as I could get on hectic days lol. And the best way to make me read and really understand what the writer was trying to tell me, is by writing anything that I get from what I read each day.

And I learnt today that time really is a matter of perspective and habit on facing the finitude.

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