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    1. Mastery over a field takes extensive time, focus, and guidance from mentors rather than innate genius. 2. Developing mastery requires discovering your true calling, apprenticing under experienced practitioners, and finding social and emotional support from mentors. 3. Apprenticeship involves deep observation, skills acquisition through practice, experimentation, and trusting the learning process even through failure.

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    1. Mastery over a field takes extensive time, focus, and guidance from mentors rather than innate genius. 2. Developing mastery requires discovering your true calling, apprenticing under experienced practitioners, and finding social and emotional support from mentors. 3. Apprenticeship involves deep observation, skills acquisition through practice, experimentation, and trusting the learning process even through failure.

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    Mastery

    Robert Greene
    Intro
    • Mastery : The secret to greatness in a field
    • Mastery is not a function of Genius. Not a miracle.
    • It is a function of
    • Time
    • Intense Focus
    • Mentors/Relationships
    • It is not
    • Possessed by other Great ones
    • Our vanity/self-love/ego protection promotes the cult of genius
    • If he is a miracle or gifted - it does not aggrieve us
    • Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: but none is a 'miracle.'-
    FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
    Big Ideas
    1. Discover your calling
    2. Apprenticeship
    3. Must have Mentor(s)
    4. Social Intelligence
    5. Strategies for creativity
    1. Discover your calling
    • Characteristics
    • LOVE - You must love it. Must feel passion for it
    • Visceral Reactions to stuff related to it
    • Never Tired of it
    • Curiosity - unusual degree of curiosity
    • Power - Feelings of power attached to particular actions.
    • Avoid the false path
    • Doing it for money/fame/power
    • Weaknesses
    • Ignore your weaknesses
    • resist the temptation to be more like others.
    • It doesn’t appear out of the blue … it’s a process
    • It can appear in the guise of your deficiencies
    • Makes you focus on the one or two things that you are inevitably good at.
    2. Apprenticeship
    • Steps:
    • Step 1 – Deep observation
    • Don’t try to impress
    • Step 2 – Skills acquisition
    • Natural learning – we learn by watching and imitating
    • Practice – Long hours. Challenging comfort zone
    • Step 3 – Experimentation
    • Experiment with the new

    • Strategies:
    • Value learning over money
    • Revert to a child like feeling of not knowing
    • Trust the process
    • Trust that failure, negative emotions are part of the process
    • Move towards resistance and pain
    • Invent exercises in areas of your biggest challenge
    • Apprentice yourself in failure. 2 Kinds of Failure
    • Never trying – waiting for perfect time
    • It will DESTROY you
    • Bold and venturesome
    • You learn a lot
    3. Mentor
    • Why?
    • Life is too short. Your creative time is very limited
    • Trying to learn through books, practice, occasional advice is time consuming and hit/miss
    • Shortcut the process
    • 10 years on your own
    • 5 years or less with a mentor

    • Emotional Relationship w/ Mentor is crucial


    • They feel emotionally invested in your progress
    • Be useful to them
    • You feel emotionally drawn to them
    • You admire them
    • Mentors find this immensely flattering

    • How to get a mentor interested and hooked


    • See the world through their eyes
    • Ask yourself - what do they need the most?
    • If you are interested in their self interest - they will in turn be interested in you
    4. Social Intelligence/ Empathy
    • Most of us are operating in the dark
    • Others motivations and intentions – We are Blind to them
    • Your goal is to identify and pierce through to what makes people unique. TO understand their:
    • character
    • Values
    • Pasts
    • Way of thinking
    • Be able to see yourself as others see you
    • Put yourself in their shoes
    • Don’t project your feelings on them
    • How to do this?
    • Silence your inner voice. Be present
    5. Strategies for creativity
    • Creative Task
    • Think of yourself as and explorer.
    • THE higher the goal, the more energy you will call up from deep within.

    • Creative Strategies
    • Cultivate negative capability
    • The ability to hold paradoxes.
    • Be OK with feeling doubt and uncertainty
    • Allow serendipity
    • most interesting and profound discoveries in science occur when the thinker is not concentrating directly on the problem
    • Alter your perspective
    • Look for whats not there.

    • Sense of Urgency
    • The feeling that we have endless time to complete our work has an insidious and debilitating effect on our minds.
    • Manufacture urgency if needed
    • Your mind is now like a army that is backed up and can not retreat.
    • Fight or DIE
    • Edison – Light Bulb
    • Deliberately talk to press about an idea before he was ready
    • Put his reputation on the line
    • Galois – The greatest work on Algebra
    • The night before his duel he summarized all his ideas on algebra
    • Lack of Intensity is BAD
    • Without intensity brain doesnt jolt into high gear
    • Mental connections do not trigger

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