Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain,
there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the

pupil on his road to mastery. Not the danger of wasting himself

in idle self−gratification ̇ for the East has no aptitude for this

cult of the ego ̇but rather the danger of getting stuck in his

achievement, which is confirmed
by his success and magnified
by his renown: in other words, of behaving as if the artistic

existence were a form of life that bore witness to its own

validity.

– Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery

Image above:
First Archery of the New Year (Yumi hajime) by Torii Kiyonaga (1787)