Un verdadero trabajo artesanal se destaca entre los demás. Su calidad y su naturaleza son incuestionables, y es por ello que siempre el camino correcto es enfocarte en aquello que más te gusta, y en aquello que más amas. Al trabajar bajo éstas circunstancias, siempre estarás buscando como mejorar tu trabajo, siempre encontrarás nuevos caminos, siempre desarrollarás innovaciones y métodos que no se habían descubierto.
Éste enfoque define a aquellas personas que dejan huella en éste mundo. Aquella personas cuyas acciones tienen eco a través del tiempo. Aquellas personas que sin duda marcan nuevos parámetros, nuevos estándares de lo que es real, y de lo que es posible.
Es por ello que no estoy de acuerdo con el concepto de perfección. Siempre habrá un peldaño más por ascender. Mi abuelito tiene un dicho que, como muchos en la sabiduría personal define y engloba éste concepto de manera muy directa: Hijo, nunca pienses que eres el mejor ó el más perfecto, porque en éste mundo, para cab..., siempre hay cab... y medio.
Y bueno, la gente que siempre ha seguido éste curso en su vida, siempre ha encontrado oposición. Lamentablemente la conciencia colectiva de las personas no está lista para asumir la verdad de las cosas y el verdadero funcionamiento del universo. Es por ello que, siempre se ha buscado callar y suprimir a las personas que han sido revoulcionarios verdaderos. El más claro ejemplo: Galileo Galilei.
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THE PENALTY OF LEADERSHIP
In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieves a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountback, long after the big would had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live – lives.
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