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BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4224 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: AskHubski: What don't people realize?

One of my instructors told me yesterday over a beer that mastery is the realization that one can never become a master.





humanodon  ·  4223 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've heard that too. I'm no master, but I'm pretty good at a few things and at the very least I can tell when I'm further along than some of the others I meet who are also involved. For me this really means that there is no ultimate level of mastery, though there may be a range that an observer might consider to be mastery.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4223 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Exactly. And to have a the mentality of a master is to realize that you'll never be a master since there are an infinite number of things to master.