All tagged Attaining Mastery

This week’s blog and podcast have been about this idea of leaving a legacy, and I’d like to tack on one last thought on the topic.

And that is that leaving a legacy suggests - at least to me - that we must become “enlightened” in some way. I’m using the term ‘enlightened’ not only in the spiritual sense, but in any context, including in our craft. There are those, for example, who understand their industry so well, who have ‘mastered’ their technical work, who are so well versed in their disciplines, that we might consider them to be enlightened in their specific domains.

What We Know

“If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters." — Epictetus

I’ve been turning this quote over in my head for a long while now, and there’s something about it that resonates incredibly strongly with me. 

The trouble is, I can’t quite figure out what.

Is it suggesting that if we are focused on becoming expert in a particular area, we mustn’t be afraid of appearing stupid or unknowledgeable i.e. that we’ve figured everything out already…