George Leonard - Mastery (1991)

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Competition provides spice in life as well as in sports; it's only when the spice becomes the entire diet that the player gets sick.

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To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

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It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.

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The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

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How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

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The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

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If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.

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Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

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At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

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For a master, the rewards gained along the way are fine, but they are not the main reason for the journey. Ultimately the master and the master's path are one. And if the traveler is fortunate - that is, if the path is complex and profound enough - the destination is two miles farther away for every mile he or she travels.

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