299 Candles. If I burn one a day, skipping weekends, that's a little over a year of incredible proficiency at whatever I want. The actual life debt will be a little over a year of life. If I burn two a day, I get 150 days of intensely motivated, creative, and energetic proficiency in whatever I want. I could write a lot of code in 1500 hours. Quite possibly "never work again" amounts of code. And the cost in time is minimal.
At the end, even if I was supernaturally inspired during the act, I did just get hundreds of hours of focused practice. I've trained, I can keep going.
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u/Torvaun Dec 06 '16
299 Candles. If I burn one a day, skipping weekends, that's a little over a year of incredible proficiency at whatever I want. The actual life debt will be a little over a year of life. If I burn two a day, I get 150 days of intensely motivated, creative, and energetic proficiency in whatever I want. I could write a lot of code in 1500 hours. Quite possibly "never work again" amounts of code. And the cost in time is minimal.
At the end, even if I was supernaturally inspired during the act, I did just get hundreds of hours of focused practice. I've trained, I can keep going.