Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.

Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'

Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

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 uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.

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 aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success—an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.