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Mastery
In his book, Mastery, author Robert Greene stated that the hardest part of mastering a new skill isn’t access to information or training. Nor is it the 10,000 hours of practice everyone thinks is required to master a new skill – it’s letting go of old, ego-invested beliefs about oneself.
Rollo Tomassi • The Rational Male - The Players Handbook: A Red Pill Guide to Game
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent; it is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
Robert Greene gets at the core truth in his book Mastery: “Your emotional commitment to what you are doing will be translated directly into your work.4 If you go at your work with half a heart, it will show in the lackluster results and in the laggard way in which you reach the end.”
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
Peter Senge, a professor at MIT, describes mastery as something that “goes beyond competence and skills . . . It means approaching one’s life as a creative work.”7
Jeff Goins • The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do
THE EVOLUTION OF MASTERY For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads.
Robert Greene • Mastery (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene)
- FOLLOW THE PATH OF MASTERY Mastery isn’t a word we often hear anymore, but it’s as critical as ever to achieving extraordinary results. As intimidating as it might initially seem, when you can see mastery as a path you go down instead of a destination you arrive at, it starts to feel accessible and attainable. Most assume mastery is an end result,