When Miyamoto Musashi said that mastery is, in knowing one thing, to know ten thousand things, he was definitely not talking about how potato salad and trail mix are the same techniques, merely applied to different ingredients, but I bet if he’d known about potato salad and trail mix he would have mentioned them specifically.

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