Mastery

What is your Mastery? I have been reading the book “Mastery” by George Leonard. The last couple weeks in my readings, I have pulled out a couple of thoughts that I really liked from George Leonard. Here are couple things that I enjoyed reading: “Are we getting ahead of ourselves when we hit plateaus? We have many flaws. We are working hard, doing the best we can to improve our skills. Ambition is always there but is tamed. We need to make progress. Are we dedicated in our process to get where we need to go? What is our truest happiness? It’s the time when all the crap goes away.” “Goals and contingencies, as I’ve said are important. But they exist in the future and the past, beyond the pale of the sensory realm. Practice, the path of mastery, exists only in the present. You can see it, hear it, smell it feel it. To love the plateau is to love the eternal now, to enjoy the inevitable spurts of progress and the fruits of accomplishment, then serenely to accept the new plateau that waits just beyond them. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.”