Think about your favorite pastime. Golf, fishing, running, cooking, whatever it is that you love. If you’ve been doing it a while, then you’re probably pretty good at it. Whether you can drive straight off the tee box, drop a lure into a 5-gallon bucket from 50 feet, push a 7-minute mile, or make a kick ass jambalaya without even looking at the recipe, those things didn’t happen by chance.
No one is born knowing how to fillet a fish or shoot a fade away jumper. We had to work hard to master those skills. We didn’t luck into anything; we achieved our current point of proficiency through practice.
We all accept the reality of this method:
- We try
- We fail
- We analyze
- We adjust
- We get better
That’s how we gain mastery of whatever it is we’re attempting to do.
We’re all well acquainted with how this works. We know that if we’re learning the skills we need to enjoy our beloved pastimes, we’re got to put in the time. No one shoots par after playing a few rounds, so back to the range we must go.
We’re only human, and it’s ingrained in us. We want to be the best we can be.
On the heels of striving for mastery in one part of our life, when it comes to our job, many of us are good with the status quo. Put out exactly the amount of effort we need to and nothing more.
Sure, we’ll spend all weekend working on our short game, but heaven forbid we spend an hour improving our job skills. If we could only figure out a way to like our job as much as we like our hobbies, maybe we’d enjoy getting better at it.
If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Attributed to William Edward Hickson
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