Mastery is a double-edged sword: The hidden danger of being very good
Will Durant, paraphrasing Aristotle, wrote: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” The people around us can never fully know our immense internal complexity—not the way we know it about ourselves. At the same time, they see and hear what we say and do in a way that we are unable to.
