Success Versus Mastery

Transformation, Cheat Codes, and the Long Game

I’d like to explore a simple question:

Is change possible without the process that appears to be innate to transformation?

As human beings go, we seem to change slowly and with difficulty. Is there, then, a shortcut to becoming human? Or does hacking our way forward not actually take us forward?

True change doesn’t seem possible without the adverse undertaking of metamorphically altering the existence of something.

Which is actually just a conversation on the difference between success and mastery.

Contents:

• Defining success and mastery through three metaphors.
• Showing the difference of these approaches as “the short game” and “the long game.”
• Deciding which direction you want to go is choosing which deal to make.

Metaphors to Define Success and Mastery — [Gardens, Candy, and Video Games]

My premise here is that missing (or intentionally avoiding) the difficult, daily, slog of transformation and change inevitably results in missing the…