Master Your CraftHow to Get Over Yourself and Get to Work

Master Your Craft: How to Get Over Yourself and Get to Work, with Malcolm Gladwell, Bestselling Author and Staff Writer, The New Yorker

As Malcolm Gladwell – author of numerous New York Times bestselling books – points out, mastery and popularity are sometimes linked, but often they are not. If your goal is to become masterful at what you do, the formula is really quite simple: stay focused and do your time. This is the theory behind the 10,000 Hours Rule that Gladwell made famous. Worrying about whether you’re being recognized for your efforts, i.e. popularity, is a product of the ego, not to mention a distraction. So get over yourself and get to work! In this lesson, Gladwell teaches you how:

• Don’t sit around waiting to be recognized.
• Check your inner critic: get clear on what failure is.
• Take responsibility for that which you can control; forgive yourself for that which you can’t.
• Find a supportive learning community.