day no. 16,503: being bad in order to become bad ass

1 Corinthians 16:13-14

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity.

If you want to be good at something, you must be willing to be bad at it. And the more you want to be good at something, the worse you will likely be at it before you're any good at it. Your taste will often exceed your talent. 

If you want to play the man, you have to be willing to be bad at it. But the only way to become a man is to play at it. You must do what a man would do, even if you don't do it very well.

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” -- G.K. Chesterton

Initiative and humility are the necessary ingredients of masculinity. If you do not take the initiative, you cannot grow. If you are not willing to look silly, you will not grow. Only when you want something badly enough to be bad it will you ever be any good at it.

Being a man, then in short, comes down to being bold enough to be bad at things in order to develop the skills of a bad ass. If you’re an ass about being bad, you won’t get better, but you’ll still be an ass. But if you humbly endure the difficulties of falling short of glory while still striving for it, you will wear the glory of God better.

Philippians 3:12-17

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained. Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.