What you’re doing looks like magic.
In 1962, Arthur C. Clarke published his Three Laws, and the third and most famous is that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
As digital technology gets more advanced, that certainly feels true – computers and computer software take on a more and more magical quality as time passes. But this is also true of any skill development.
The man I’m watching tune a piano right now is performing an act almost indistinguishable from magic. He’s working at a faster pace, and making subtle changes, than I can imagine doing. The same is true when I watch a concert pianist play an incredibly virtuosic piece. I couldn’t play at at 10% of that tempo! It’s magic!
Lighting designers; great teachers; top salespeople; recording engineers; gourmet chefs. Quintessential phrases like Frank Sinatra or Ella Fitzgerald.
At the highest level, professionals have developed their skills to the point where I can’t tell what’s work and what’s magic.
And the only way to get to magical is with hard, hard work. Years of it not looking at all like magic.