An aspiring samurai asks a master if working twice as hard will shorten his ten-year training. The master says it will take twenty years instead, because focusing only on the end goal blinds you to the path itself.
There's this revered master who everybody wants to study under, and it's almost impossible to get to him. And so he's interviewing candidates, and the aspiring samurai comes to him and says, how long will it take me to be a master? And he says, 10 years. And so then the young samurai, eager to kind of prove himself, he's like, well, what if I work twice as hard and I work day and night to become a master? How long will it take then? And so the master sits back and looks at him and says, 20 years. The young samurai is like, wait, what? How can I— how can it take twice as long if I'm working harder The master replies, "If you have one eye fixed on your destination, then you only have one eye left to find your way."
