Pink's (2009) second element of motivation, mastery, nicely dovetails with the idea of
craftsmanship as defined by Sennett (2008). Craftsmanship, said Sennett, is “an enduring, basic
human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake” (p. 9). In like manner, Pink (2009)
said mastery, as the second element of motivation, follows three rules. The first rule is about the
way you think. You need to see your abilities as unlimited in terms of improvement. The second
rule of mastery is that it requires “effort, grit and deliberate practice” (p. 208). The final rule of
mastery is that mastery is impossible to achieve. But impossibility does not stop the craftsman
because “The joy [of mastery] is in the pursuit more than the realization”