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You only reach a high level of expertise when you throw yourself at something and focus on it until you get expert at it.

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Laeserin 1y ago

I was just thinking about your bread, nostr:npub1wqfzz2p880wq0tumuae9lfwyhs8uz35xd0kr34zrvrwyh3kvrzuskcqsyn

When I taught myself to bake artisan bread, I baked every day, sometimes multiple times per day. I read everything I could find about it, grew my own starter, tried out different flours and forms and techniques.

We were all so sick of bread, and then I suddenly stopped and went to one or two loaves per week and it's been like that ever since.

But I can bake 15 types of bread without a recipe and it's always like 🤌🏼

And then I spent 3 years working in a bakery.

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MichaelJ 1y ago

I don't bake bread every day. More like once a week, because that's how quickly we eat it.

I have so much more confidence in bread baking now, though (even though I managed to kill my starter, but that's a different story).

MichaelJ 1y ago

A good anecdote from my experience is I wanted to learn a guitar arrangement of the theme from The Mandalorian a year or so ago. It was way above my skill level at the time. For a month that was the only thing that I practiced, until I finally had it down.

This piece used an alternate tuning, right-hand tapping, harmonics, and some bizarre chord shapes. But now I have some additional techniques under my belt that I can apply to other pieces. And I can brush up on The Mandalorian theme whenever I want. It's a cool piece.