The book is structured well, first telling you what Mastery is, then describing the tools needed to achieve it, and then describing the hindrances to achieving it. Priorities do shift, and you can change them at any time, but simply getting them down in black and white adds clarity to your life, and clarity creates energy.

Reading this book at this particular time felt like a drink of cold water in the desert for I have been thirsting after a practice that I could master. How Yoky Matsuoka created the modern robotic hand, and what the rest of us can learn from her GeekWire.Move toward resistance and pain: Once we get good at part of a skill, we tend to just do that since it’s easy and familiar.

Laziness: We all have the tendency to want to take the quickest, easiest path to our goals, but we generally manage to control our impatience; we understand the superior value of getting what we want through hard work. In his follow-up, The Art of Seduction, Greene mentions having compassion for one’s “victim”—he or she being seduced.

All of us have access to a higher form of intelligence, one that can allow us to see more of the world, to anticipate trends, to respond with speed and accuracy to any circumstance.

The only solution is the following: We must learn how to quiet the anxiety we feel whenever we are confronted with anything that seems complex or chaotic. Every adult or older child around us is a teacher of language—the type of teacher who smiles at success, permits approximations, and isn 't likely to indulge in lectures (i. First, it was meandering and long-winded trying to tie stories about evolution and human history to 'mastery'. Here Greene actually makes the same case for the seductive lifestyle, but this time it is gravely serious instead of guiltily pleasing. Many creatures possess more highly specialized sense organs, but no total sensorium is so well equipped and integrated as is yours.Yet even our failures to choose consciously operate as choices, adding to or subtracting from the amount of our potential that we will eventually realize. He provides a model that we can use, common pitfalls, examples of typical learners - the hacker, the dabbler and the obsessive and other guidance. Submit to the Other — The Inside Out Perspective: We can never really experience what other people are experiencing. What separates Mastery from the rest of his oeuvre is that Greene’s emphasis on his subject’s importance in the 21st century forces readers to play close attention.

This book, Mastery by Robert Green wants to teach you how to overcome one of the biggest obstacles we face. Rigidity: The world has become increasingly complex in many ways, and whenever we humans face a situation that seems complicated our response is to resort to a kind of artificial simplicity, to create habits and routines that give us a sense of control. Myss's point of departure is the spirit: she sees human life as fundamentally a spiritual journey, and whatever careers or tasks we might undertake must be part of that spiritual journey, if we are to find them fulfilling. Still, the book is targeted at those who can tolerate seeing life as a stage, and most people would prefer their own version of reality.

But it's also true that one good paragraph sometimes has more power to change the individual and the world than any number of pictures.