I recently finished reading a good book by Daniel Pink called "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us." He mentions three elements that are responsible for motivating us - Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. I found his "Three Laws of Mastery" particularly fascinating for anyone wanting to become great at anything.
1. Mastery is a Mindset:
Pink's "Type I" behavior has an incremental theory of intelligence, prizes learning goals over performance goals, and welcomes effort as a way to improve at something that matters.
2. Mastery is a Pain:
"Grit" - perseverance and passion for long-term goals
"Mastery - of sports, music, business - requires effort (difficult, painful, excruciating, all-consuming effort) over a long time (not a week or month, but a decade.)"
"Mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again."
3. Mastery is an Asymptote:
"This is the nature of mastery: Mastery is an asymptote. You can approach it. You can home in on it. You can get really, really, really close to it. But...you can never touch it."
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