keep improving after you seen everything or tried? im lost

[Franz_]

If you’ve put in 10,000+ hours into something (the rule) and really gone all the way with it, applied every insight you found, pushed your understanding as far as you could (including things like awakening in spirituality or mastery in any field), how do you keep evolving when there is no resource/insight anymore 

At that point it can feel like you’ve already seen everything there is to see, or at least everything accessible to you right now.

So what actually drives further growth beyond that?

Is it about somehow generating new kinds of insights, or more about deepening and refining what you already know? Or is the feeling that there are no more insights just a blind spot?

And do you think endless improvement or evolution is possible or we are limited no matter what when it comes to this?

[LastThursday]

10,000 hours is just a rule of thumb not a hard cut off, so there is always more to add without limit. It also depends on the "something" in the "into something" you mentioned. The more time you put into something the more it will affect other areas - the skills and knowledge translate into other things. In the end it's not that you're mastering a particular subject, it's that you're levelling up everything, but with an emphasis in a particular area. 

There is a sense of diminishing returns though for a lot of things, you make a lot of progress earlier, but slower later, because everything becomes more complex or subtle or about fine tuning or at the limit of some faculty such as anatomy or thinking.

Also when mastering a thing you don't know what you don't know, especially if no one else has done it before. You are always working things out for yourself, and that takes deep domain knowledge to come up with new insights, and time to pick things up. Even if others have gone before you, you still need to research their techniques and embody them yourself. It can feel like there's nothing more to learn, but that's not true most of the time, you just don't know what it is yet.

It's endless because mastery affects many things at once, and you're free to shift your focus around, and because there is a lot of stuff already out there to learn.

Edited 3 hours ago by LastThursday

[mmKay]

There is always more to do, learn, see or go to. The ceiling you're mentioning only exist in theory, and inside the mind, not in practice.

Infinity is infinitely infinite