Mastery: Robert Greene (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene)

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In the long run, the war against mastery, the path to patient, dedicated effort without attachment to immediate results, is a war that can’t be won. To get material on the contemporary masters, of whom there are nine in the book, Greene conducted in-depth interviews with each.

this book was filled with lots of wonderful nuggets of wisdom and truths regarding the ideas of love, and how love is the driving force in our lives. You can learn from your experiences, but it can often take years to fully understand the meaning of what has happened.Together, we’ve compiled a comprehensive learning package to help you make sure that every child has the essential maths skills and understanding they need to begin their new school year with confidence. In our full 17-page summary, we explain the 3 steps to becoming multi-dimensional the 6 common emotional obstacles to creativity and 9 creative-active strategies you can use. Pink makes a strong, science-based case for rethinking motivation–and then provides the tools you need to transform your life. By analyzing the lives of such past masters as Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Leonard da Vinci, as well as by interviewing nine contemporary masters, including tech guru Paul Graham and animal rights advocate Temple Grandin, Greene debunks our culture’s many myths about genius and distills the wisdom of the ages to reveal the secret to greatness.

A baby animal watches his mother to learn the techniques of hunting, because he is doomed to be himself a good hunter, or die in hunger. This is sometimes a very hard concept for women- since many are taught at a young age to always put people’s needs ahead of their own. Me gusta el mensaje que quiere transmitir pero quizá no estoy de acuerdo en las palabras que usa para afirmar ciertas cosas.Cool example of ritual: some surgeons wash their hands and put on their gowns in the same fashion before each surgery. We give control of our happiness to others as soon as we have expectations from others, and end up setting ourselves for failure.

It’s truly bizarre when you think about it that we will devote ourselves fully to developing our tennis game, but leave something like our relationships largely to chance. it definitely felt like a spiritual experience just reading it, and ruiz's storytelling made for a fresh and magical read, making this book different from the average self help book. The odds that someone has the peak physical abilities (“God-given talent”) AND the peak mental abilities (willingness to work hard) are incredibly low. Me hubiera gustado que tuviera referencias, pero como digo, es más un libro de un solo autor basado en sus creencias que ha obtenido de su educación, vivencias y ancestros, entre otros elementos obviamente.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.