I read one definition that an expert is someone's who's made every possible mistake in a particular very narrow field. There's something to that. If you love your field, it's hard not to get started doing that!
Also, mastery is relative, isn't it - like beauty or understanding - mastery to one person might seem like elementary blundering to another. I guess learning is never-ending. The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
Beauty is as relative as light & dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear & completely shame the supposed beauty of the first. - Paul Klee, diary, 1910
El sabio siempre quiere aprender; el ignorante siempre quiere enseñar. – Spanish proverb
(The wise person always wants to learn; the ignorant person always wants to teach.)
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. – Aristotle
Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself, must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know. – Emerson
EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. – Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde, Maxims for the Use of the Overeducated
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. – J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
Step 1: The fundamentals or core skills - this is the bare minimum you need to be functional.
Step 2: The history or how your area evolved into it's current state.
Step 3: Bleeding edge, the most current developments in your area.
I read one definition that an expert is someone's who's made every possible mistake in a particular very narrow field. There's something to that. If you love your field, it's hard not to get started doing that!
Also, mastery is relative, isn't it - like beauty or understanding - mastery to one person might seem like elementary blundering to another. I guess learning is never-ending. The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
Beauty is as relative as light & dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear & completely shame the supposed beauty of the first. - Paul Klee, diary, 1910
El sabio siempre quiere aprender; el ignorante siempre quiere enseñar. – Spanish proverb (The wise person always wants to learn; the ignorant person always wants to teach.)
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. – Aristotle
Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself, must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know. – Emerson
EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. – Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde, Maxims for the Use of the Overeducated
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. – J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
I have met very few masters, yet they're all extremely humble and open to learn from anything/anyone.
Step 1: The fundamentals or core skills - this is the bare minimum you need to be functional. Step 2: The history or how your area evolved into it's current state. Step 3: Bleeding edge, the most current developments in your area.