Book Review: Mastery by Robert Greene


Mastery in one area is important that is what will prevent you from being overwhelmed by the largeness of your life calling. Be who you are by learning who you are. Robert Greene books are great.

The guy in you is the one you should listen to and do as best for yourself. Realise who you really are, do not look at more than that. Look at areas that bring you passion and joy. You can sift and sort through vast opportunities and focus on what matters to you. You should live reality your way and not how others want you to live it.

Your Life Task:

Do what sparks you deeply and primally. Listen to your deeper self. This should be the source of who you are. Reconnect with this innate force and everything else will fall into place. Just take your passion and grow it. Don’t care about what people think of you.

You are learning all the time and there is no time that you will not be learning. Your brain is always learning. We give it a rigid framework and added friction, this prevents us from getting the most. If there is real value for others, then you should submerge yourself into that thing. You should reduce that friction by this fascination.

Things you won’t like doing will be cultivated through the process of mastery, you have to learn to deal with things deep within you that should be the things you should get good at. Learn the hard skills. These will be built upon and combined upon in entrepreneurial ventures.

Strategies:

In order to master the field, you must not stress yourself. See that it takes you to your origins. You talk about it all the time and you are so interested in it all the time. 

Hiro dreams of Sushi. You should still believe that you can improve on your work. You should make continuous improvements.

Occupy the niche that is perfect and can be dominated. Pick a niche that you choose to serve. Do that only. Consider niching down further. See what you want to do.

You should see the task in the whole and submerge in the process as a whole. Do not do anything else. Stick. Have a grand strategy right from the beginning. See the complex stuff later. Get the most of your opportunity for you once you are at a stage. You must learn to let go to level up and grow.

You must further build your life task, eyes on the future and not the past. Manage the complexity and not be overwhelmed by it. 

Steps:

Learn from the greatest masters, be the very best, be an apprentice and learn the mistakes that are made and become highly proficient at the right stuff.

Learn whatever it is you need to learn. Mentors. Marketing and selling is an area of expertise. See how to make money yourself, don’t get paid. Be resourceful. See what keeps the mind sharp and has the mental space to be the best. You should lower overheads to meet your needs. Get a side job or a side deal when you are an entrepreneur. This will help you to learn the ropes. This will teach you a valuable skill. You must HEDGE and diversity. 

It is who you know that matters and you can learn more from the right people. It is about adding value to peoples lives and building real relationships. See value addition scope. The relationship should add to the bottom lines of the person. 

Trust the process. You must pick up the necessary skill that makes you internally the best. See the larger picture. You cannot suppress the emotions of shit inside you. Stay focused on what you have to do. Boredom and shot needs to be filled with self discipline. Move towards resistance and pain. You should fucking criticise yourself and do fear and pain practice. DO FEAR SETTING. Value resistance and pain. You will be able to deal with this very smoothly. Be able to process things extremely well. It should show you the flaws in things until you get it right. 

Mistakes tell you about your own inadequacies. Submerge in the process of action, you should learn to make mistakes and fail over and over. Understand how to resolve your mistakes critically. This also teaches you more robust ways to deal with your issues. Things should be of the deepest interest to you. You don’t know where this will lead but this will push you and you have the clarity of your actions.

Absorb the masters power and mentor dynamic. Your mentors should have already acquired success, they are interested in teaching us. There should be a barter and pay or whatever. They help you see things that you should have. They will open up doors for you as they are well connected. You must have mentor and protege. The knowledge and apprenticeship helps you improve. This will make you the best.

Choose your mentor who best fits your needs and the life tasks. You must always surpass your mentor in knowledge and brilliance. You must move on. After you have learned what you need to learn. You must submerge and move on if you are not able to learn more. 

Choose someone who will get you there. They should be strategically aligned with your goals. See the strengths and weakness. Adopt the paradigm of success.Do not make it difficult for the mentor. Please value your mentor. 

Do not fall under the spell, you should make your own ideas. You should mould the knowledge for your own shape and you should be competitive with your mentor as soon as possible. Do not be a clone of your mentor. You should take things to the higher level. Make it a back and forth dynamic as it will be open and excellent for you. 

Your principles will not harden into dogma. The teacher and the student are both one. Help the mentor grow and become even more brilliant so that they can teach you better. You come from a place of contribution here.

See people as they are:

Have good social intelligence and don’t be a fool. Don’t close doors here. There is more to gain from the person. Emotional drain of resistance and manipulation’s of things around us. Don’t project but be real and focused on things. 

Social intelligence will help you avoid conflict and trouble in life and in everything. Make sure that you are getting your work to showcase just how good it is. Make sure that you say the right thing and not do wrong shit. Involve and gracefully accept feedback of all in your project. Helps break down walls when people are afraid. People in a political game play a toxic environment that is horrible and lame. The place will not be healthy for anyone. 

We should see feedback from others, and see the self as others. Most communication is miscommunication. You should see reality as it is. This is a sign of immaturity. Don’t blame others. You cannot impose your way and waste your time. You can strong-arm insecure people but look for people who would be a good benefactor of your product and service. See the value to them and see how you serve people. Find your target market and find the ideal prospect. Suffer fools gladly. People who have no idea what they are talking about and they try and convince you how to not be bothered. You must lower yourself to their level then you waste your time, here you must adopt your foolish side, accept it in others because it is there in you too. (POWER vs. FORCE). Let people be and make results happen, you can tolerate the presence of the other. This is important because you will get stressed out over mediocre people. See what is valid approval and is unnecessary approval. 

What to Do:

YOU Must be bold as you are out of internship, give the mind fuel to new ideas and thoughts. Your thinking should grow and be more dimensional. Such originality will bring you to the heights of power. The mentorship teaches you PRINCIPLES. Principles by RAY DALIO. There are staples to your personality, for work, for marketing, for selling, learn these principles and use them to create something new and bold. Do things that make sense in objective reality. 

Strategies:

Specialist versus opportunists. We are least specialised. We see any kind of opening and going ahead with it. You can maximise your powers by Opportunity by Evan Paigan. Opportunity embracing is what you should do. What you see as problems will close up your doors in life. Figure out ways to get to the next level and learn how to get better at problem solving as a whole. See how you can change things and evolve. It is a positive thought and also it is an opportunity. You have to learn to move the objective forward along with it. You should see all these opportunities. People don’t value them and have the faith to learn and grow your skills. See how things look like an opportunity. You should get over your delusional thought of seeing it differently. Learn to master your skills. Through intense labour on your part you see what and how things are, you get the feel, the step by step process is flawed and painstaking. Go through the learning curve where you will be proficient at things. You must constantly use what it is that you are developing. Get a feel as to what your hand and your brain will make you.

Alchemy:

See the opposites as they are is immature, it is actually fluid. You must embrace the complexity of things. We are now able to deal with chaotic situations that can contribute to solving problems. Delving into the depth of things as that will show you how to hold things in the surface. Everything has polarity, you should see both equally well. You choose both in order to have more to work with. You must learn to deal with it in your apprenticeship.

Fuse the Intuitive:

The intelligence must help you stay true to your inclinations, over many years we must immerse into what we are doing. We expand ourself and see the secret core of what things are. But we must have the added reach of our intelligence. We must infuse rationale with intuitiveness. Why not embrace both, learn critical thinking one at the same time. Do not have bias for things. Connect to your primal power and your environment. It applies to everything in the surrounding as a power source for what is correct and rational. What do things mean in this and that circumstance. The best thing you can do is hold things true in a situation that must need expansion all the time. At the end of mastering simple skills, you have now become a master. The body and mind infuses and transforms you. You should see that it is not intuition but it is actually extreme efforts. It is the dynamic of the present. There is no plan. You can tell how good someone is and how fluid someone is in their work. You must get full grasp and mastery in things that are at play. Make sure you internalise the detail and the life-force. Make sure that you think in large brushstrokes. The attention that is produced must be more than momentary. See the big picture and the details. See the one with the wider picture rather than the smaller dynamic. Moving to mastery will bring you a global outlook. You should be there, and see how it leads to the end result where value is transacted and grows larger and larger. You will make mistakes but it is essential to know that you should not make the mistakes. See the parts that make up the whole. 

See the primal source of human intelligence, our tendency is to project things in ways which we are not aware. Seek first to understand people and then be understood. Learn to work with reality and learn to create. Connect with people who are different and the same and learn from each for yourself. Adapt, mix, apply and solve your problems. Main reasons to adapt mastery is to see how things should be.


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