The mastery mind-set acknowledges that external motivators—be it Olympic medals, book sales, art commissions, or venture capital funding—will influence your motivation. At the same time, however, the mastery mind-set ensures that the influence of such external motivators takes a backseat. This doesn’t happen unthinkingly. It requires deliberate choices and actions to keep such external motivators from staking too great a claim in your psyche and inconspicuously turning your passion into passio. Perhaps the simplest and most effective of these actions is showing up and doing the work, every
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