Our aim shouldn't be to have an easy life, but to have a better quality of problems. If you're going to adapt to the frequent changes that bombard us, you're going to have to push past your comfort zone. Change, even good change, makes us uncomfortable. That's why we so often stick with old, unproductive habits, rather than trying something new. Adapting to change is going to make you feel uneasy, distressed, even miserable.
Masters teach by who they are.
What artisans do is who they are. What masters do is who they are not. The 1981 Nobel Prize winner was talking to an astonished class of undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley. It means they miss a lot of things. If you can discover one of the things they've missed, you may win a Nobel Prize too.