7The Need for Mastery
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"In teaching others, we teach ourselves."
—PROVERB
One of the strongest intellectual drives of the human species is to be able to do something well—to master something. We're born with this need. Consider, for example, the toddler who is learning to walk. Despite hundreds of trips, tumbles, bumps, and bruises, a baby's need to master the skill of walking remains strong until he or she can do it effortlessly. Remember yourself at age five or six. Just as everyone around you had learned to ride a bicycle without training wheels, you endured countless crashes until—at ...
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