Monday Motivation: Pursuing Mastery

Monday Motivation: Pursuing Mastery

STOUT Inspiration + Action To Accelerate Your Week

Find inspiration in Sarah Lewis’s unique view on creativity and use our Stout Action Plan to seek your own mastery of success.

INSPIRATION

Sarah Lewis is a bestselling author, curator, and an Assistant Professor at Harvard University. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, an M.Phil from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in the History of Art and has held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Modern, London.

Her articles on race, contemporary art, and culture have been published in academic journals as well as The New Yorker, the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America and for the Smithsonian.

Lewis is also the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (2014) as well a frequent keynote speaker at many universities and conferences including TED, SXSW, PopTech and ASCD.

We thrive, in part, when we have purpose, when we still have more to do.
– Sarah Lewis

 

ACTION

Define Your Purpose
Take yourself beyond setting goals and dig out the REASON behind what you are pursuing. KNOWING YOUR WHY is critical to continual success.

Appreciate The Journey
Celebrate each step forward, learn from each step back and LIVE THE MOMENT.
(Watch Sarah’s TED on Embracing Near Wins for inspiration!)

Never Stop Moving
Success is not a destination- your WHAT’S NEXT is the key to living a purpose-driven life.

 
 
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