“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” Socrates
The more I know the less I know. That’s the excited (and occasionally overwhelming) thing about knowledge and skill. The deeper you go towards mastery, the more you unlock and the more secrets there are to uncover.
Mastery isn’t a finite state. It’s a continuous curve that never quite touches the sides. Discover is endless. Which keeps things interesting if you stay flexible and curious. There’s always another mountain to explore after you get to the top of the one you are on. There’s always another puzzle to solve.
Mastery is also a choice. We can’t learn everything, mostly because we don’t have the time.
Also time changes what is possible to mastery. Computers as we know it are less than a hundred years old (two-hundred if you start with Babbage). Think of all of the wonderful things that you focus on and master from this invention.
Well, not all. But that makes what you do choose all the more special.
