The Supreme Pleasures of Mastery I Robert Greene

to get anywhere in life you have to work

extremely hard and you have to be

disciplined if you wanted to be a great

piano player there's no drug you can

take there's no self-help book there's

no guru you got to spend 5 years 10

years learning it until it becomes

something the second nature there are no

shortcuts but if you learn that from an

early age like 10 years old or whatever

you see after a few years that an

incredible pleasure happens where now

you have Mastery of this piano and you

can play things you could never play

before suddenly the whole thing opens up

this whole new universe and that's the

Paradigm for everything meaningful in

life if you learn something well if you

learn a craft and you master it it can

bring you a far greater pleasure than

any kind of drug or any kind of going

out to a party or socializing but you

have to be patient and you have to not

be afraid of boredom you have to not be

afraid of the effort