Fill the bucket

Mastery is not skill acquisition. Mastery is knowing certain skills, but it's also about knowing how to build on and refine those skills. It's not seeing which existing option fits best, but being able to see a novel solution to an original problem. 

Mastery allows you to see every dimension of your art. What's strong, what's weak, and what to do about those weak points. It's seeing something that nobody else has ever seen before. That body of skills, knowledge, and experience shifts from something external that you seek to comprehend to something internal that you apply effortlessly. Your mind, body, every bit of you is transformed by your mastery. 

There is no way to hack mastery. You have to fill the bucket, drop by drop.

Drip, drip, drip...