"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
- Michelangelo
Mastery isn't a leap; it's a scaffold - built layer by layer, block by block, through practice, repetition, mistakes, and refinements that stack up over time.
Like these cubes, progress isn't always linear. Sometimes it's offset, or looks awkward mid-build. But slowly, the structure begins to support itself. What was once uncertain becomes stable, experiment becomes evidence, effort becomes fluency.
There's a lesson in perspective here, too: the same structure can look different depending on how you're viewing it.
Mastery isn't just about adding more techniques. It's about learning to see possibilites, constraints, and patterns in new ways.
It's about building something that can keep growing.
Today I'm practicing mastery by remembering that every single step counts.
Necker/Illusion Cubes designed by David Mitchell, featured in his book, Sticky Note Origami
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