How To Deal With Mastery Concept?

[Callum Milner]

After hearing about having to spend thousands of hours doing gruelling work to achieve mastery, like Leo states in the mastery video the  whole concept of life purpose sounds depressing, putting myself through so much suffering seems horrible, how do you overcome the belief that it's just too much work? 

[Leo Gura]

@Callum Milner Stop thinking of it as suffering.

If you're doing the thing you're most passionate about in life (supposedly that's what your life purpose is), then why is it a point of suffering?

It's basically like you're being told to go the toy store and select your very favorite toy out of all the ones every built, and then playing with it your whole life.

If you say, "But I wanna dabble in lots of stuff!!!"

You're welcome to do that, but then you won't have a career because you will be mediocre your entire life, and therein lies much suffering. Fulfillment comes from building depth in something, not from skimming the surface of a bunch of stuff.

To offer value in modern society (and get success for yourself) requires that you invest at least 5-10 years into mastering ONE thing. Otherwise you've got very little to offer, as all your competitors will have more expertise than you.

And remember, you're still allowed to have hobbies on the side.