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There is no shortage of lecturers, business books, videos, blogs, and other "educational" materials that promise you mastery; perhaps even the power to become a millionaire!
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It seems wrong to imagine that you have mastery over everything you will feel and believe.
"Babel-17 is such an exact analytical language, it almost assures you technical mastery of any situation you look at," the protagonist says at one point.
If you pick Axe Mastery, you get a higher minimum damage + accuracy for BOTH 1H and 2H axes.
You may also find that you learn more from a close friend than from a teacher, and that you gain mastery of a subject after trying to teach it to your friends.
That's where you find mastery.
Instead, look for positions that afford you autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
So sessions aimed at learning new content should happen at "about-to-forget" moments, with spaces between practice sessions increasing as you approach mastery.
And if you experience mastery of that stress … then in the future your neurobiological stress response will tend to be more adaptive and you're more likely to be resilient.
Sure, there are already many rewards in learning: gaining understanding (of yourself and others), having mysterious or unfamiliar aspects of the world opened up to you, demonstrating mastery, satisfying curiosity, inhabiting imaginary worlds created by others, and so on.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com