cheat sheet to master life-persist

•Ego. A real belief that you can be the best, against all possible rational evidence against this. Against everyone trashing you simultaneously. Add up all of the above and you get persistence. Persistence creates luck. Persistence overcomes failure. Persistence gets you experience. Persistence is a sentence of failures punctuated by the briefest of successes, and eventually those successes will start to propel you towards mastery. There's no answer at all. That's why it's called persistence. Because no matter where you are, there you are, doing what you always did. Not letting any of the above stop you. Using all of the above in your Mastery Arsenal to propel you to higher successes and deeper failures and then even higher successes. It's painful and brutal and no fun and nobody will ever understand why. And when you achieve success people will act as if it's the most natural thing in the world to have happened to you. Ultimately, Mastery = Mystery. You're going to break the sound barrier in some field where nobody has ever gone that fast or that far. You're going to find your own unique combination of passions that make you the best in the world at that combination.