Good speaker?
Writer?
Dancer?
Singer?
Runner?
How do I become one? How does the whole thing come together? How will I know if it really is my thing? Will it be worth it?
There is only one way to find out. There has really only ever been one way.
The way to mastery in the past, the way to mastery in future… And the way to mastery today:
Start.
Take a single step.
Do it now while you are rubbish.
Don’t wait to feel “ready”. Don’t expect that you will ever feel that you have finally reached excellence. The moment you achieve something, it immediately becomes something that you can achieve – and no longer special.
Einstein didn’t feel like “Einstein” while he worked and thought – he felt like you, like me- not quite “there” yet, slightly unsure… But willing to keep moving anyway.
I wonder often why our minds are so rigged up to stop us beginning important work. Is it an evolutionary beneficial tendency? Perhaps it is the “cowards” that survive. The coward gene has been evolving for many, many, many generations.
Mere survival for a lifetime might be what your genes want, but it is not what your spirit wants.
This then is the daily war between the spirit that wants to change the world, and the genes that want you to hide beneath the duvet covers.
Who will win?