Desire, patience, persistence, and confidence are skills that build resilience. Improving these skills can increase our motivation and our ability to accomplish great work. These are the skills of mastery. While these words may seem amorphous, the good news is that they truly are skills that can be learned and practiced. And like all skills, the more you practice them, the more proficient and effective you become at using them.
As research builds in this field, there are many books you can consult to broaden your knowledge. For a start, we’d recommend: The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth, and Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant, and Mastery, by Robert Greene.
And while books can help, the fastest, and arguably most effective, way to build these skills is to work with someone trained in helping you develop them.
The team at Avenue 8 Advisors works with people at all corporate levels to help them build and improve skills like these, resulting in more effective, more enjoyable, work. What would it look like if you could harness desire, patience, persistence, and confidence to do your best work?