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This Is Your Apprenticeship
You start one day knowing nothing, then wonder how it is you arrived. You don’t need to know how it happens; just put your head down, serve your time.
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All of a sudden, there I was.
Thirty blokes sitting in the lounge waiting for the meeting to start. Every one of them fresh-faced and uncorrupted, and me, and maybe one or two others, who had been on there for ten years.
We were the older ones now. The experienced ones. The ones towards which the new boys looked.
It happens that way in everything I have found.
Drawing, writing, running, gardening, lifting weights, running a business, it’s all the same thing.
I call it daily work.
One day you start, and you’re the fool, the novice, the gilly.
You’re in it, and you’re doing it, and you don’t give a second’s thought to how good or bad you are at it, where…