The Better You Get, The Less You Care…

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.

As Marcus Aurelius writes, 'Ambition means tying 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.'