Is that if something really matters, if you _really_ want to be good at something — which is different than simply saying that you want to be good at it — you’ve got to do it every day. Even if it’s just some tiny increment forward; even if the effort is rubbish, or a failure. You gotta do _something_.
The other thing I know is that that isn’t enough by itself. For instance:
Check out the ninth-grade me, awash in dreams of power and madness. I can’t remember what I wanted to be great at at this point other than basketball. And I was eventually pretty good at basketball, by some standards. But I didn’t live anywhere where I could play basketball with other people, get in pickup games, etc, so I just practiced by myself in the driveway. Which was beautiful in its way, but isn’t enough. Basketball is a team sport, and there’s only so far you can get by yourself.
So now I wonder how many of the things that matter to me now, things that I am in fact making the requisite effort toward, amount to me practicing in the driveway? And even if I practice every day, it won’t be enough?