This is one of Guitar Craft's useful guiding principles. Toyah & I received a call yesterday from a friend of ours who is a superb young horticulturalist & garden planner. He had applied for three jobs, attended all interviews, and was not accepted. Dejection. Rejection. My own upbeat take on this was that a far better, creative future is waiting for him than anything he can imagine as possible.
The creative future can't be forecast in terms that we are able to forecast: the future available to forecasts is history projected forwards, or a kind of expectation. The creative future provides something radically new which enters the picture.
On the dust-jacket of "Sherborne" is a quote of Mr. Bennett to AGE Blake at Sherborne: "Of course, you know that I don't know what I am doing!". A corresponding notion from Guitar Craft is: "If you know what you're doing, you don't know what you're doing".
Genius is something like a divine unknowing expressed through masterful understanding, self-control & capacity. Mastery is like "the assumption of innocence within a context of experience". Once again, an unknowing expressed through understanding. The tangible, almost physically oppressive weight of demand, expectation & insistence which accompanies "fan" interest cripples the available present moment. Which means, puts up a three-foot gate & Berlin Wall to a future which actually has value, and is available.
"Address the process rather than the outcome.
Then, the outcome becomes more likely."
