It's a skill best acquired in a setting where it's safe to fail, and is only mastered by actually doing things for yourself.
The "Tonight Show," with Jimmy Fallon, and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" have mastered the art mostly by doing charming, gently offbeat bits with celebrities, who prove themselves to be tremendous good sports—just how we've always hoped they'd be.
Joan's first instinct after John's fatal heart attack in their apartment had been to try and "master" the event by doing everything she could to understand it.
An urban myth has developed that their paper says you can master something simply by doing it for 10,000 hours.
The "Tonight Show," with Jimmy Fallon, and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" have mastered the art — mostly by doing charming, gently offbeat bits with celebrities, who prove themselves to be tremendous good sports — just how we've always hoped they'd be.
SON: I can get a masters in archaeology by doing two semesters of classes, a thesis along with the field work.
From the beginning of the novel, the narrator, and by extension McGregor, treats disorganized workers with scorn; from the miners of Coal Creek, to the downtrodden laborers of Chicago who are shown mastered by their bosses (unlike McGregor, who does not follow this trend).
Linnaeus in this exhibition represents a human urge to "order" nature, to make sense of it and perhaps by doing so master it.
No one individual can have mastered work done by such a range of figures, representing as they do a number of quite different frameworks or approaches; and relatedly no one person stands as emblematic of the entire field of philosophy of education, and no one type of philosophical writing serves as the norm, either.
Being in a government lab in a small village you do miss out on some of the elements of graduate school that I think I was fortunate to experience by doing a master's degree in Canada first.
And how do I help him to master this vital force, without being mastered by it himself?
