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Mastery

Robert Greene

What is the highest form of human intelligence, and how can anyone learn to reach it?

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At a glance

Author
Robert Greene

Why read it

  • You will see why Greene treats the years after school as a second, practical education worth taking seriously
  • You will learn why a mentor can save years that would be wasted gathering knowledge from scattered sources
  • You will test Greene's claim that the mind tightens like a muscle unless you work it, and look for ways to keep it flexible

Who it is for

  • A young professional starting out in a new field
  • A mid career changer who must learn from scratch
  • A creative person wanting a path to deep skill

Contents

  1. MASTERY
  2. INTRODUCTION
  3. I
  4. DISCOVER YOUR CALLING: THE LIFE’S TASK
  5. 1. Return to your origins—The primal inclination strategy
  6. 2. Occupy the perfect niche—The Darwinian strategy
  7. 3. Avoid the false path—The rebellion strategy
  8. 4. Let go of the past—The adaptation strategy
  9. 5. Find your way back—The life-or-death strategy
  10. II
  11. SUBMIT TO REALITY: THE IDEAL APPRENTICESHIP
  12. THE FIRST TRANSFORMATION
  13. The Apprenticeship Phase—The Three Steps or Modes
  14. Step One: Deep Observation—The Passive Mode
  15. Step Two: Skills Acquisition—The Practice Mode
  16. Step Three: Experimentation—The Active Mode
  17. 1. Value learning over money
  18. 2. Keep expanding your horizons
  19. 3. Revert to a feeling of inferiority
  20. 4. Trust the process
  21. 5. Move toward resistance and pain
  22. 6. Apprentice yourself in failure
  23. 7. Combine the “how” and the “what”
  24. 8. Advance through trial and error
  25. III
  26. ABSORB THE MASTER’S POWER: THE MENTOR DYNAMIC
  27. 1. Choose the mentor according to your needs and inclinations
  28. 2. Gaze deep into the mentor’s mirror
  29. 3. Transfigure their ideas
  30. 4. Create a back-and-forth dynamic
  31. IV
  32. SEE PEOPLE AS THEY ARE: SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
  33. Specific Knowledge—Reading People
  34. General Knowledge—The Seven Deadly Realities
  35. 1. Speak through your work
  36. 2. Craft the appropriate persona
  37. 3. See yourself as others see you
  38. 4. Suffer fools gladly
  39. V
  40. AWAKEN THE DIMENSIONAL MIND: THE CREATIVE-ACTIVE
  41. Step One: The Creative Task
  42. Step Two: Creative Strategies
  43. Step Three: The Creative Breakthrough—Tension and Insight
  44. Emotional Pitfalls
  45. 1. The Authentic Voice
  46. 2. The Fact of Great Yield
  47. 3. Mechanical Intelligence
  48. 4. Natural Powers
  49. 5. The Open Field
  50. 6. The High End
  51. 7. The Evolutionary Hijack
  52. 8. Dimensional Thinking
  53. 9. Alchemical Creativity and the Unconscious
  54. VI
  55. FUSE THE INTUITIVE WITH THE RATIONAL: MASTERY
  56. The Roots of Masterly Intuition
  57. The Return to Reality
  58. 1. Connect to your environment—Primal Powers
  59. 2. Play to your strengths—Supreme Focus
  60. 3. Transform yourself through practice—The Fingertip Feel

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