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Author: C. Beau Hilton <cbeauhilton@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:50:53 -0500
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@@ -11,4 +11,11 @@ Full MD/DO, can write orders, but still heavily (thankfully) supervised.
## motivation
Daniel Pink's Drive: autonomy, mastery, purpose (these map to Cal Newport's[^cn3] autonomy, competence, connection)
+## mastery
+Can't ever fully master medicine,
+as it's too large (even if scientific knowledge remained static),
+and scientific knowledge is exponentially expanding.
+The joyfulness of infinite play lies in learning to start something we cannot finish.
+See [Carse's _Finite and Infinite Games_](florilegium/finite_infinite_games_james_p_carse.md).
+
[^cn3]: he didn't make these up, of course, and both Pink and Newport are popularizing large and deep academic fields