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the quick-fix, fast-temporary-relief, bottom-line mentality doesn’t work in the long run, and is eventually destructive
How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself. Rather than being frustrated while on the plateau, you learn to appreciate and enjoy it just as much as you do the upward surges.
people who love the plateau. Life for these people is especially vivid and satisfying.
“People who get into something for the money, the fame, or the medal can’t be effective.
Love of your work, willingness to stay with it even in the absence of extrinsic reward, is good food and good drink.
The human individual is equipped to learn and go on learning prodigiously from birth to death,
Knowledge, expertise, technical skill, and credentials are important, but without the patience and empathy that go with teaching beginners, these merits are as nothing.
We were joined in a delicious conspiracy of excellence.
those with exceptional talent have trouble staying on the path of mastery.
on the path of mastery learning never ends.
Families that stay together hold fast to certain rituals regardless of the haste and distractions of daily life;
At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.
there are no experts. There are only learners.
Every master is a master of vision.
Homeostasis, remember, doesn’t distinguish between what you would call change for the better and change for the worse. It resists all change.
A human being is the kind of machine that wears out from lack of use.
Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.
A regular practice not only elicits energy but tames it.
“Never marry a person,” psychologist Nathaniel Brandon tells his clients, “who is not a friend of your excitement.
Winning graciously and losing with equal grace are the marks of a master.
People get hurt because of obsessive goal orientation, because they get ahead of themselves,
Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.
the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.
Humor not only lightens your load, it also broadens your perspective.
mastery is not about perfection. It’s about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives.
To be a learner, you’ve got to be willing to be a fool.”
be playful, free, and foolish in the learning process.
