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The choice between dabbling and excelling

The choice between dabbling and excelling

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The choice between dabbling and excelling

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- I once met Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, one of the greatest tenor sax players ever and one of my idols, famous for his rasping tone, and the fact that he plays all his solos with his eyes open, and he told me that he prefers playing pool to playing the sax. He said he was bored with the sax. He just plays it because people want him to. I thought that was really sad but he's getting lots of enjoyment, happiness really, from playing pool. Why would this be? Could it be that he's not learning anything new on the sax now. He's pretty much mastered it or at least the improvements are getting smaller and smaller now. Whereas his improvements at pool are moving on really fast. An hour on the sax or an hour on the pool table, if learning is what drives you then the pool playing will give you more happiness if you're ready. As I mentioned in another video don't learn pool in order to beat other people or to master it 100% but enjoy the process of learning about it and being able to make enjoyable…

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