The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
If you’re not like them, however, if you’re not (sad to say) a rare genius, and you wish to, gradually, over time, raise the level of the (more or less limited) talent you do have, and make it into something powerful, I believe my theory might be of some value. You toughen up your will as much as you can. And at the same time you equip and maintain
... See moreHaruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
Mastery in any field, from cooking to chess to brain surgery, is a gradual accretion of knowledge, conceptual understanding, judgment, and skill. These are the fruits of variety in the practice of new skills, and of striving, reflection, and mental rehearsal.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
Peter Senge, a professor at MIT, describes mastery as something that “goes beyond competence and skills . . . It means approaching one’s life as a creative work.”7
Jeff Goins • The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do
He writes, “If you want to become significantly better at anything, you have to fall in love with the process of doing it. You have to fall in love with building the identity of someone who does the work.”39
Scott Barry Kaufman • Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
