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Cut my 10,000th steak this morning and the number hit me harder than I expected.
It was a 16-ounce ribeye for a regular customer, and I realized I've been keeping a rough mental tally since I opened my shop in Lexington five years ago. That's a lot of muscle memory and trust from folks coming back for more. Has hitting a big personal count in your work ever made you stop and think about the craft?
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felix41418d ago
Consider the physics of it. Your hands have applied a specific force, at a specific angle, through a specific medium, ten thousand times. That's not just practice, it's a physical record of pressure and resistance worn into your muscle fibers. The craft lives in your tendons as much as your head.
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the_terry17d ago
Ten thousand repetitions is a number that makes my joints ache just reading it. My grandfather was a potter, and his knuckles were swollen and bent by age sixty. The idea that the craft lives in damaged tissue is a hard truth. It's not just skill in the mind, it's the literal wearing out of the body that holds it.
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