Mastery (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene Book 1)

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Helps us reach the goal that we all are striving for, that power over ourselves to become extraordinary. Alternate the Mind Through “the Current”: The Current is a constant dialogue between our thoughts and reality. Play to your strengths — Supreme Focus: Mastery is like swimming— it is too difficult to move forward when we are creating our own resistance or swimming against the current.

In the long run, the war against mastery, the path of patient, dedicated effort without attachment to immediate results, is a war that can't be won. George Leonard has taken this rarely practiced art and laid it out to us in a format so simple, most of us could read through it in a day or two. If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything. I have practiced martial arts for over 28 years, and it is only now, at age 40 when I am contemplating teaching others on a larger scale (perhaps) and as a duty to society at large, that I am finally completing a black belt certification process. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it.The problem with such repetitive phrasing is that just having read it in the last chapter, our brains are inclined to think we’ve read what follows this before, and so we skim. To get material on the contemporary masters, of whom there are nine in the book, Greene conducted in-depth interviews with each. I probably still don't know the answer to that, but I have now finished reading one of his books, and it is written from what feels like a different point of view.

So when you look for your instructor, in whatever skill or art, spend a moment celebrating it when you discover one who pursues maximum performance. In the intervening years, the force tends to fade in and out as you listen more to parents and peers, to the daily anxieties that wear away at you.

For a book treating 'masters' as a scarcity in our population, now made all the rarer by ironic attitudes towards skill in a technological age, Greene introduces his book with the guarantee that every reader can find their inside talents and master them.

Self-obsessiveness: In the work environment, we almost inevitably think first and foremost of ourselves.Mastery requires us to change the way we approach these periods - which we usually think of as unimportant "in-between" time. Leonard gives us the tools to take what interests and excites us and to apply the keys to mastery to allow us unreal success.