"But I'd argue that waiting is the quintessential easy-to-pick-up hard-to-master kind of skill that is massively accessible to most of society.
We needed that sort of vision, instead of just the cold, hard streets of L.A. Cervenka: He was a leader-teacher-guru-master kind of guy, but I wouldn't say that to his face.
Voodoo priests and conjurers promised slaves that they could make masters kind, harm enemies, ensure love, and heal sickness.
You can't cross or master this kind of rift.
Mr. Jennings said he often served and shaved the president and recalled that his master was kind to his slaves.
If they haven't read a lot, they also won't master the kind of formulations used in writing generally.And third, they may not have much or any of the scientific vocabulary needed.
Deep work is no "nostalgic affectation" of writers and philosophers, he insists; it's essential if you're to master the kind of work that will remain lucrative once robots are doing the rest.
Of course, it is easier to master this kind of technique than to apply it in situations when it is most needed – at times of crisis, stress, or emotional turbulence.
For then one would have to master every kind of cultural, scientific, and philosophical activity.
So, Haiku it was -- a form, I soon came to realize, that was easy to imitate, but hard to master -- kind of like the difference, as Mark Twain once wrote, between lightning and a lightning bug.
But once you get the hang of Manual mode, it's very easy to master, but kind of difficult to explain.
