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As wonderful as flow is, the path to mastery – becoming ever better at something you care about – is not lined with daisies and spanned by a rainbow… Mastery hurts.
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This is the nature of mastery: Mastery is an asymptote. You can approach it. You can home in on it. You can get really, really, really close to it. But… you can never touch it. Mastery is impossible to fully realize.
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Why reach for something you can never fully attain? The joy is in the pursuit more than the realization. In the end, mastery attracts precisely because mastery eludes.
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Autonomous people working toward mastery perform at very high levels. But those who do so in the service of some greater objective can achieve even more.
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If you master the art of questioning, your work as a negotiator will benefit enormously.
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…mentoring, a lifelong process of giving and receiving in a never-ending role as both master and apprentice – has always been the Holy Grail for those who love to connect people with people.
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If you can master the art of rethinking… you’ll be better positioned for success at work and happiness in life.
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We take pride in making rapid progress, which promotes a false sense of mastery. That jump-starts an overconfidence cycle, preventing us from doubting what we know and being curious about what we don’t.
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Achieving excellence in school often requires mastering old ways of thinking. Building an influential career demands new ways of thinking.
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Innovation doesn’t reject the past; on the contrary, it relies heavily on the past and comes most readily to those who’ve mastered the domain as it exists.
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