1 BUILDING PERSONAL MASTERY

The focus of this chapter is on techniques you can use to go beyond being just good at your job and become truly outstanding; to be all you can be. To achieve this, you will need to become much more deliberate in choosing and working on things you want to improve, and you will also need to tune your senses to acquire feedback from every possible source and then use this feedback as a learning mechanism. Through learning, you get better at what you do and you also develop the personal courage to strive to be great at things that you currently believe are beyond your ability.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

When we talk of personal mastery we are describing the process of developing true expertise in a field.

It is natural ...

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