Interestingly, I learned this adage in object manipulation (festival fire or LED dancing - hoops, poi, staff, etc). The community breaks down things into “flow” and “technique”. Flow is highly improvisational, tech is highly practiced, and you really cannot do one without the other, even if everyone had a lean.
So: the steps in the path are known in advance, but not the order, presence/absence, quantity, arrangement, etc. The major unknown is what you will do next. The best performers are highly reactive to, and involved with, the audience and colleagues (musicians).
(This ofc changes for choreographed performance)
As a full stack dev, I’ve got a stack of patterns (techniques) in my pockets to pull out for this or that situation, but I don’t really get to know which one will be the next one I’ll need. And I do my best work when I can get involved with the end users, interacting with them to grok their needs; and with my coworkers, so we’re a team.
So: the steps in the path are known in advance, but not the order, presence/absence, quantity, arrangement, etc. The major unknown is what you will do next. The best performers are highly reactive to, and involved with, the audience and colleagues (musicians).
(This ofc changes for choreographed performance)
As a full stack dev, I’ve got a stack of patterns (techniques) in my pockets to pull out for this or that situation, but I don’t really get to know which one will be the next one I’ll need. And I do my best work when I can get involved with the end users, interacting with them to grok their needs; and with my coworkers, so we’re a team.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.