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Chapter 7: The 4 Vital Ingredients for Achieving Mastery

Summary

Gaining mastery is actually a sequential process. Here are the five things you will need to pack for the journey.

The 4 Vital Ingredients for Achieving Mastery

Believing in Yourself

Without this primary ingredient, you aren't going to be able to become a master at anything. To become an expert, it is absolutely vital that you know you can achieve it. Belief must be within practical realms but it is something made with knowledge. It is your own self-assessment.

Confidence

Believing in yourself is one thing, gaining confidence is another. Realizing that you can bake a pie well is belief. But knowing that your pie will really turn out well is confidence. Having belief in yourself doesn't take you much far. This is like water that is stored at a height, purposeless and meaningless. But if you were to have confidence, it could make that water fall. And then you could use it to do various things. This is what your confidence does to things that you really have a belief that you can do.

Practice

Confidence mustn't be empty. It has to be reinforced all the time with practice. You cannot be confident about baking a pie if you haven't practiced it earlier. You cannot be confident about speaking in front of a 1,000 people if you haven't tried it out earlier. There are many subtle places where you might go wrong. Hence, it is very important that you keep practicing things. Only when you practice something so well that you can even do it backward are you really moving toward being a master at it.

Shunning Criticism

You will meet a lot of it on the way. Only a very little of the criticism will be anywhere near positive. A lot of the rest will be out of envy or fear. You have to see through this and move ahead. This is where believing in yourself becomes important. If you know fully well that you can do something, you can fend off the criticism that comes your way in a much better manner.

Chapter 8: Mobilizing Your Strengths; Improving Your Weaknesses

Summary

You have strengths as well as weaknesses. Here's how you should deal with both of them if you are moving toward mastery.

Mobilizing Your Strengths; Improving Your Weaknesses

We are an amalgamation of the good and the bad. None of us is completely good or completely bad. We have our grey areas. So, when do we reach mastery in something? It is when we convert more of our weaknesses into strengths that we are able to do that. But, is it all that simple?

You cannot convert your weaknesses into strengths so simply. But being realistic about them helps. If you know that you always commit a mistake about a certain thing, and accept that, you can work on it. You have to realize that there is a limitation. If you are too blind to see this limitation, you won't be able to do much about it. You won't be able to remove your weakness in one day. It could take a considerable amount of time, but being realistic and accepting about them helps you in two ways:-

It helps you to be cautious in that particular area and probably avoid it or replace it with another option that you are better at.

It creates in you a sense of your drawback so that you can work at improving it and trying to reduce its impact on your overall performance.

Weakness can be improved. It only takes the right confidence and practice to be able to do that.

But one more thing that can help you in moving toward perfection is understanding your strengths. You shouldn't be too negativistic about yourself. If you have some great strengths, try bringing them to the fore. All great performers, great sportspeople, great businesspeople have had their weaknesses. But most of them have camouflaged that by focusing on their strengths.

Your strengths are more special to you than your weaknesses. This is because your weaknesses are other people's weaknesses as well, but your strengths are your own. Other people aren't strong there. Only you are. And probably a handful of other people are. If you can mobilize these strengths and keep bettering them, you could be a much better performer at what you do. This is an important lesson of life; learn it well.

Chapter 9: Avoiding Stress and Keeping Focus

Summary

Stress comes majorly in the way of achieving mastery. Its management is one of the vital things that you need to do in order to succeed.

Avoiding Stress and Keeping Focus

Stress will come your way often. When you strongly believe in something, but don't see it happening as yet, stress begins to take its toll on you. You begin to think, "Why am I not able to do this? I know I am so good at it!" You probably become frustrated because you cannot achieve something that you are sure you are so good at, and the frustration turns into stress.

You will be able to keep better focus on your goals if you can involve yourself in some stress management exercises. These can help you by clearing your mind and keeping it fixated on your goal. The following are some things that you need to keep in mind.

It is not that you will achieve whatever you believe in within just a day. Many people have tried their whole lives to achieve something, despite the fact that they have believed with their heart and soul that they can do something. You have to give things time too. The sooner you begin, and the stauncher you believe in it, the faster will you be able to reach the goals you have set for yourself.

Wanting to achieve something means that you have be relentless about it, but there is no need to be unstoppable. You have to think about other things in life as well, such as your friends and family. When the chips are down, these are the people who will really be by your side. In fact, your family and friends are a whole stress management program in themselves.

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