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mastery so quiet it looks like luck to everyone watching.
means Highly skilled or proficient at something, often through deep practice.
from From Latin adeptus, 'one who has attained,' the past participle of adipisci, 'to reach or obtain' (ad-, 'to,' plus apisci, 'to grasp'). The word carried a special charge among alchemists, who used Adept as a title for those rare practitioners said to have 'attained' the great secret — the philosopher's stone. So buried in 'adept' is the idea of one who finally got there, having grasped what others only reached for.
- alchemy roots
- Once meant alchemists who reached the philosopher's stone.
- latin source
- From adeptus, meaning one who has attained.
- silent work
- True skill hides the thousand hours behind it.
- adept vs adapt
- One letter splits mastery from survival.
adept of taoism — practitioners in chinese philosophy and religion who master internal alchemy, with texts dating to 4th century ce
adept in freemasonry — initiated members who achieve the adept degree, a specific rank in masonic lodges worldwide