Occupation: Curator Birth: 1979
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman ….
Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failur….
Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end..
Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'.
The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost..
Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning..
Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be..
Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could..
To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp..
Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't one. On utterly smo….
Shoes are money well spent and a good metaphor for life: everything else in life may be awful but a shoe will cheer me up, lift my body and take an o….
A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consid….
I wanted a business that I didn't have to give my life to - something simple, beautiful and branded. The kind of endeavor where I could meet people b….
Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortabl….
We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do..
Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving..