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The better you get the less you care. Whether it's a great athlete or a great comedian. The truth is the same the better they get the less they care about results. That's not to say they don't care about winning or about success. Of course. They do. It's that the longer you do something the closer you get to Mastery the less external results matter in terms of measuring progress. The comedian Dave Chappelle has talked about how he hardly even cares about the crowd anymore and definitely not the money what matters to him is doing the thing.
Getting closer to perfecting his craft, even if it's in ways that the audience can't even notice early on in a career because we don't know much about it or ourselves. We use proxies to measure ourselves we care about the critics or we care about stats and we care about getting this honor that one but the better we get the more it becomes clear to us how little control we have over those things the more experience we get the more it is evident how little our best work actually correlates with getting those external achievements.
As Marcus Aurelius rights ambition means time your well-being to what other people say or do self-indulgence means tying it to things that happen to you. But real success real Mastery real sanity that he says comes only by tying it to your own actions the better you get the more you are able to tie your identity to the only thing that matters according to the stoics your own choices
your own work your own judgment and everything else that are you get the less it.
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