Practice As Ultimate Status
February 24, 2026·0 comments·zg
There’s nothing like having friends as your filter.
I left a Kris Abdelmessih post in my inbox for when I had time to read it. Mostly because, and Kris knows, I get excited and then lost by the options stuff, and very much look forward to his life bits and recommendations usually towards the end of his posts.
So I was talking to our mutual friend and co-collaborator, Mat Cashman, this week, and he says, “Please tell me you saw the Derek Sivers quote Kris shared the other day” and as I went looking I realized the unopened email was still waiting for me.
Mat and I were already talking about practice. About the compulsion to work on something that has an internal game to it. How it’s like a status game but inside of yourself. You practice because you’re trying to be better than you were the day before, and the year before, and whatnot.
And maybe you perform sometimes, too, to get that external validation and status. But in between performances you get back to the internal game. You get in that woodshed and work it out.
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