picture in my mind

I feel like this now, because stressful times tend to converge together:

Edvard Munch's The Scream

There are apparently three kinds of people in the world: dabblers, hackers and masters. The first merely dabbles in everything but realising that the acquiring of any worthy skill is hard, gives up and never achieves any level of competence in anything i.e. Jack of all trades. Hackers are a bit better in the sense that they pursue a skill to some level of proficiency but then stagnate. Whereas mastery entails the continuous perfecting of an art or skill; you're supposed to get better and better forever.

I am scared of being stuck in the first category. :s Excellence is a virtue too.