Finding Ease in Mastery

When we try to get good at something, there’s often the sense of needing to challenge ourselves, of pushing. There’s often this kind of scrunched up face kind of image that we get with it. But I think what we lose in that, uh, looking for that, is that mastery involves ease. That when you’re so good at something, when you’re so masterful at the thing, It should be as easy as breathing.

You see that when you watch somebody who’s dancing or singing or whatever it is, and it looks like effortless....