Chad Silverstein argues that mastery happens in one domain, not across many. He cites Einstein and Jefferson as examples, and explains how prolonged focused attention builds intuition. The tension: you need to slow down and stay put, but also explore.
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So again, when, when we look at the road to mastery, which is really like, what gets me going is like helping family, friends and clients not just become pros, but become masters. Masters are very rarely beyond a domain. Now there's always a Leonardo da Vinci to blow that theory, you know, because he was a master of so many different domains. But when we study Einstein and you go down the pyramid builders and you go down Jefferson and others that we classified as some of the greatest geniuses, Renaissance, you know, men and women of our time, very rarely were they beyond masters, very rarely beyond a very singular domain. And so I think to be a master to your point, this iterative process in today's world, we just have way our attention span, like I told you. What is intuition? Informed attention, meaning prolonged attention on a son or daughter is what gives a mother's instinct. It's in it's juice. And yet when I, I'm constantly trying to tell clients to slow down, stay in their domain, let's build mastery and at the same time not stifle them from jumping out that window. What attention, what a healthy tension, right?