I guess you need a set of habits. The habit to practice daily, the habit to improve, the habit to find and accept feedback... But the main point of the article

I guess you need a set of habits. The habit to practice daily, the habit to improve, the habit to find and accept feedback... But the main point of the article is "do it, and do it because you love it". That's the key. Forget about mastery and go with the flow. Experts can may make fun of you but if you do it because you love /doing it/ you don't care about comparisons.