Mastery: Robert Greene (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene)

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Here is a quick description and cover image of book Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment written by George Leonard which was published in 1991-2-1. On the positive side, this book contains some healthy and true messages about how we love, and why we fail, and how so many of our actions and reactions are based on fear. He is happy until the domestication does its job by convincing that we are here an ambiguous higher purpose and we have to follow some rules. Yes, you should get paid to learn and create a win-win situation, but always know that learning has a much bigger ROI than being paid a bit more. All significant learning is composed of brief spurts of progress followed by long periods of work where if feels as if you are stuck on a plateau.

She doesn't have to be responsible for you; she can trust that you are going to be what you claim you are, what you project you are. This 16-page document reflects the widespread positive impact of the programme, but also identifies areas where challenges still exist. When we love, we don’t have expectations, we do it because we want to, and if other people do it or not, it’s because they want to or not and it’s nothing personal. I'm going to throw in a few additional quotes just reiterate the fact your world is a fantasy of your own creation.In this phase you dedicate 10000 hours of your time in learning your desired skill, need to put in your effort by overcoming obstacles and boredom. The book is laid out as a step-by-step sequence of explicit rules, each illustrated with case studies from the lives of the masters. Da Vinci had his when he found himself stealing expensive paper from his father’s office to draw animals out in the woods. But we never notice that everything around us tells that perfection is a concept we created to suit our pride.

After finishing, a reader will watch a flirtatious couple and think to herself, “They’re doing it all wrong. On learning: For mastering most skills, there’s nothing better than being in the hands of a master teacher. A master is someone who, through long training and discipline, has acquired the ability to enter this state of mind at will, and whose work therefore has a characteristic stamp of authority and innovativeness. Pink makes a strong, science-based case for rethinking motivation–and then provides the tools you need to transform your life. Sentence-Summary: Mastery debunks the myth of talent and shows you there are proven steps you can take to achieve mastery in a discipline of your own choosing, by analyzing the paths of some of history’s most famous masters, such as Einstein, Darwin and Da Vinci.Be selfish with yourself, but live your life through your immortal acts, acts that engrain your legacy onto humanity. You have a limit to the amount of abuse you will accept, but no one in the whole world abuses you more than you abuse yourself.

Did the once-underachieving Darwin narrowly escape the priesthood by joining the Beagle due to his childhood obsession with collecting? Even so saying, one of the greatest things about being human is the ability to continue to evolve, to learn all throughout our lives.Transcend your fears and follow yourself into the void instead of letting yourself get eaten up by entropy and decay.

The way religion describes the compassion shows that the list-to-follow is too long, which contradicts their acclaim that Heaven is so near. Here too, though, there is good news, for Greene says more than once that it is never too late to start on the path to mastery. For the ones who are near to the animals’ world, and have the patient to observe carefully, can understand this fact perfectly. With this seminal text as a guide, readers will learn how to unlock the passion within and become masters.

Perhaps non western based concepts of 'enlightenment' are supposed to be by nature - simple - and I am missing the point? i thought maybe i was overthinking it, but i had this feeling on more than one account and it even made me want to stop reading at times. This book starts off discussing love on a conceptual level but then turns into more of a How To book. According to our perception, even nature isn't perfect despite its accuracy, it symmetrical shapes and its charming beauty. Greene defines mastery as a heightened form of power and intelligence which any of us can attain, and which almost all of us experience from time to time under suitable conditions, such as the urgent need to solve a problem or to meet a deadline.