Been a Long Time Coming...

That last post on 10,000 hours to mastery got some singers and their songs circulating in my head. Like Sam Cooke - taking a fairly simple tune and loading up the lyrics with that voice of his. A voice that gets right to the heart of sorrow, heartbreak, and hope. How does he do it?
Maybe the answer is that he got out on the road and made it happen. Can anyone retrace every twist and turn in their life, every path taken, every path left behind? C'mon. Sometimes just remembering what I had for lunch yesterday is a bridge too far. So I guess trying to figure out how someone got as good as they did is not an unravel-able mystery. It'll be a long time coming, but each hour invested in mastery is an hour closer to working out my own way.