Making a small piece of art isn’t necessarily hard, especially if you’ve done it before. Making a small drawing might take a few hours. A first draft of a short story might take an afternoon. Creating an interesting guitar riff—a few minutes.
How long it takes to finish a tiny work of art will depend somewhat on our skill. But more important than skill, is focus. How fast we finish something often has more to do with how distractible we are.
The gift in this experiment is not the artwork at the end of it. The gift is that we realise just how unfocused we are. The gift is the awareness we build along the way. The gift is that we exercise our mindfulness muscle.
Eventually, finishing things becomes easier.