Why The Goal Of Mastery Is Self-Defeating

What You Should Be Aiming For Instead

When you dive deeply into the World of Development, there is one word that is almost singularly used as the End Goal.

Mastery.

Now, “Mastery” itself is not inherently bad, but the Reality is that it doesn’t work well as an End-Goal.

How do I know?

How many people Struggle with Mastery?

It doesn’t matter what type of Mastery you are looking at, you will end up finding similar rates of Failure.

In Leadership Development alone, where the Goal is Leadership Mastery, there is an 80% Rate of Failure, with “Limited Success” the remainder of the time.

I have even read that Personal Development Programs, with the Goal of Self-Mastery, have up to a 96% Failure Rate.

How can it be that in these Industries that are worth Billions of Dollars, the Failure Rate is so Astronomically High?

Are we as Humans so “Mastery Averse” that it simply doesn’t come to most of us?

What if I were to tell you that the Problem wasn’t “You” as a Human, but rather the Goal of Mastery Itself?