It took Michaelangelo more than two years to finish the statue of David. It is a masterpiece, but how did he know when he was done? A little chipping here and chiseling there and one day he looked at it and said, “Voila,” or perhaps “Ecco”?

For most of us in a growth mindset, we wlll never become David because our stories of success, failure, and lessons learned continue to chisel away at us and turn us into the person we are becoming. We never become who we're supposed to be because there is no proverbial “there” to reach.