8V; Qu'est-ce que c'est Mastery?

   “Hard work does not go unnoticed,

and someday the rewards will follow” 

― Allan Rufus 

 Whenever I think of the word mastery, I always think back to the elementary school and middle school days when we had to take the Connecticut Mastery Test. As every kid would, I dreaded taking these tests because they were time consuming and very repetitive. What I didn’t realize is that in finding these tests fairly easy, I essentially had “mastered” the topics the test had included. I had a lot of practice of the things that would be on the CMT’s and became very good at them which leads me to think I had mastered the test. After the readings from this week, I was introduced to a whole new concept of mastery which included the ten thousand hour rule which states that in order to master something, we must complete around ten thousand hours of deliberate practice. At first this was a shocking statistic, but it makes sense to spend at least ten years of your life improving on a certain skill or profession. This way, you will have complete control over it and be comfortable in all aspects of whatever it is you would like to master. For example, we have been essentially working towards mastering learning all our lives and I feel this skill is the most rewarding. As Steve Jobs says, you must have a passion for learning as well as a team of support. 

           New words I learned this week included, disparage, which is a verb meaning, “to lower in rank or reputation: degrade.” Another word I came across was, canorous, an adjective meaning, “: pleasant sounding: melodious.” Now, I will proceed to get back to relaxing and enjoying my canorous music at peace, knowing all of my blogs have been completed.