The drop hollows the stone

In the West we suffer from the myth that we must feel deeply motivated, or await a cosmic sign, before we begin. So we wait. And nothing happens.

Water does not use brute force to crush the stone. It drips. Drop by drop, utterly dispassionate, tireless and patient – until the stone finally cracks.

Create a minimal habit – like twenty minutes of practice every day – whether you feel like it or not, and you accumulate a force that in the end makes success inevitable. Like Chinese bamboo: for years nothing shows above ground while the root system builds in silence. Then it shoots up several meters in a few weeks.