“You are the supreme hunter, ever alert, eyes scanning the landscape for the fact that will expose a once-hidden reality.”

Mastery, Chapter 5, The Creative-Active

When it comes to creative endeavours, so often we find people going at them from the wrong end.

This generally afflicts those who are young and inexperienced—they begin with an ambitious goal, a business, or an invention or a problem they want to solve.

This seems to promise money and attention.

They then search for ways to reach that goal.

Such a search could go in thousands of directions, each of which could pan out in its own way, but in which they could also easily end up exhausting themselves and never find the key to reaching their overarching goal.

There are too many variables that go into success.

The more experienced, wiser types are opportunists.