Mark C. Winters asks whether you're actually growing and points to mastery as an intentional practice. He cites sushi master Hiroo Ono and George Leonard's mastery curve to show what real commitment looks like: deliberate practice, coaches, mentors, and peer groups.
Hey everybody, it's Mark C. Winters and I have a question for you today. My question is simply this, are you growing? And if so, how, how are you doing it? What's, what's driving your growth? Many of you may have read a great book by a guy named Daniel Pink called Drive. And in that book he talks about knowledge workers being motivated by having three things, purpose, autonomy and mastery. So when I have a knowledge worker and they have a strong sense of purpose, they feel like they have room to work in an autonomous fashion and they feel like they are progressively mastering their craft. It's really powerful, they're really driven. Okay, so I want to pull mastery out of that and talk a little bit more about mastery. Specifically. A couple years ago, a good friend of mine, Don Tenney, who happens to be the integrator at EOS Worldwide, told me about a video, a documentary called Hiro Dreams of Sushi. And it's about this guy, Hiroo Ono, 85 year old sushi master. He has a 10 seat sushi shop in a subway station in Tokyo and he is on this quest to perfect the art of sushi. That's his pursuit of mastery. So when you think about mastery, the first thing I want you to think about is it's a journey. Okay? There's a guy named George Leonard who also wrote a book by the name Mastery and he came up with this idea of a mastery curve. And if you notice the curve, you know he's got skill here and time here. Over time your skill will tend to stay the same unless you do something to kind of grow it. And you'll grow it and you'll retain most of that, but not all of it. You'll have some drop off, but your new plateau, your new level will be higher. But then if you want to increase your skill, you've got to boost it again. So that's the second piece of mastery is there's a lot of help out there. So there are coaches, there are mentors, there are books, there are courses you can take, you can go to a seminar, you can join a peer group. There's tons of help available to you to help you master whatever it is that you might be trying to master. The third observation I want you to have around mastery is it doesn't happen by accident. You have to be intentional. If you want to master something, you're going to have to work at it. Alright? The key point I want to make to you today and really the passionate plea is this. The world needs great integrators and great visionaries. My passion plea to you is embrace your role, master your craft and be great. Okay, three things to wrap this one up today. First one is commit to the journey of mastery. Master your craft. Really truly become great. Second thing, seek help. Go find all those different options and alternatives that are available to you and find the ones that are going to help you the most. And the third thing is own that experience. Own your experience. Put those things together and drive yourself to mastery. Come check us out on RocketFuelNow.com where you can join the list to get our Rocket Fuel Insights latest thinking on visionaries and integrators. Join the private group, Be a part of the discussion. Some really interesting things being talked about in there. We'd love to have you be a part of it. Take the assessments if you haven't already. Find out what your strengths are as a visionary or an integrator. And finally, read Rocket Fuel. If you've already read Rocket Fuel and you liked it, we'd love to see a review from you on Amazon. We'd really love to hear what you think. So until next time, rocket on.
