Mastering a series of good habits leads to mastery. This is why attainment of mastery is indeed a LONG and BUMPY ride. This insight from Atomic Habits will enlighten you as to how mastering a series of good habits leads to mastery.
To master ONE HABIT you need to put in sufficient effort to cross the HABIT LINE.
Now when we TAKE A SERIES of these habits, we realize why attainment mastery is indeed such a difficult journey.
These are the 3 laws on MASTERY as illustrated by Daniel Pink in his book Drive..
Thus being aware of these 3 LAWS can help us take a step towards MASTERY.
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink
“Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.”
The five steps towards Mastery which is an essential component of the modern day intrinsically motivated Motivation 3.0 model , involves the following 5 components:
Adopted from Daniel Pink’s book Drive
Mastery has the following three key components:
Mastery being a key component of motivational skills required for the modern day knowledge worker , has been analyzed in great details by Daniel Pink in his book Drive
Attainment of “Mastery” is bound by the following three principles.
Dan Pink’s book Drive makes a mention of the same.
1) Mastety is a “Mindset” – Continuity in excellence needs a learning mindset rather than a performane mindset
2) Mastery involves “Pain“- Excelling in a particular field needs a lot of personal sacrifices.
3) Mastery always follows an “Asymptotic” pattern – Attainment of mastery will never touch the ceiling , even though the final destination may seem very near.