How is this for an idea? The path to mastery is to do something that has been done before.
Don’t seek to be novel. Seek to be good. And good is not an achievement, but an activity. It’s a verb in this context.
Be persistent and consistent in something other people have done before you.
Pianists do scales. From scales comes mastery.
Find a model, a secret mentor, and follow what he did. How do you know if you a good model? By trial and error, probably.