The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

by Jeff Goins

When the world seems to conspire against you and when everyone around calls you a failure, true masters keep going. Even when others don’t understand, masters recognize their allegiance is to a higher calling than pleasing the masses. Joyce was trying to do something the world had never seen. He was chasing a passion, and what we learn from such dedication is that what looks like irrelevance now can lead to legacy later. But passion alone is not enough to sustain the work. True mastery is about greatness, about doing something that pushes the limitations of what others think is possible or even sensible. 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.”