Chasing Mastery

From Matt Fitzgerald, author of 80/20 Running and How Bad Do You Want It?, a new book Chasing Mastery shares five essential processes for runners, triathletes, and cyclists to cultivate their full potential in endurance sports.

Becoming a master in anything, from sports to the arts, business to personal hobbies, takes more than just time and practice. Achieving mastery requires engaging in five processes familiar to committed endurance athletes. By incorporating these processes in their training, endurance athletes can realize their full potential and elevate not just their experience in sport, but in all aspects of their lives.

In Chasing Mastery, Matt Fitzgerald identifies the five keys to mastering any skill:

• Motivation: How You Feel
• Learning: What to Do
• Understanding: Why It Works
• Individuation: How It Works for You
• Challenge: How to Push Your Limits

Chasing Mastery breaks each of these processes into five lessons, guiding athletes toward a fresh, holistic mindset surrounding their sport. Like in his popular bestseller, How Bad Do You Want It?, Fitzgerald shares practical takeaways for athletes to begin developing new mastery, starting today.

Drawing lessons from sports, history, psychology, and science, Chasing Mastery shakes up the traditional wisdom of athlete development. In the past, it was believed that mastering a skill came only after unending hours of performing the same tasks over and again. Chasing Mastery offers a counterpoint to mainstream guides like Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, Angela Duckworth’s Grit, and David Epstein’s The Sports Gene. Now endurance athletes have the guide they need to truly master their sports.

Fitzgerald’s thought-provoking ideas, invaluable lessons, and best practices offer runners, triathletes, cyclists, and all endurance athletes ways to transform their skills and engage their true potential.