Thursday, November 29, 2012
Mastery
The idea of mastery is weird to me. Ever since our class on Tuesday I've been thinking about it. You can never completely reach mastery, perfection is impossible. When the asymptote was explain in class, saying how the line will never cross the X axis, it just gets closer and closer it made perfect sense. It also made me think, why try to work for mastery if you can never truly master something? You work your whole life on something and to never master it is frustrating. This reminds me of the movie Black Swan. Black Swan is about a girl that has the lead role in the Black Swan ballet. She was bent on perfect to the point that she started going crazy. In the end, she reached the perfection she wanted in the show, but it drove her to killing herself. I guess perfection comes with a price. It's frustrating to think we can't master something but you can always look at it like there is just more we can learn at all times. You more you know, the more you realize that you don't really know everything. There is always room for improvement.
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I completely agree with you, it is perfection is not possible and it usually gets in the way of our performance. Our urges to be perfect end up backfiring and we end up being more imperfect than before. I think we should always try to be the best we can be and not perfect, I think perfection is simply relative to each person.
ReplyDeleteI agree, there is always room for improvement. That mastery discussion in class reminded me of something my grandfather told me. He said, "Be the best in everything that you do." He said if I do that, I will always continue to improve and move up in the ranks. I carry that mentality with me to this day.
ReplyDeleteP.S.: You ruined the end of that movie for me.