Mastery - Summary (Audio)

The book originated from a realization that Greene reached while writing and researching his previous books; Greene concluded that the people he studied had similar paths to success. After finishing The 50th Law, Greene focused on this concept in writing Mastery.

Mastery explains how to become successful by examining the lives of historical figures such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Albert Einstein, as well as through Greene's interviews with contemporary figures such as Teresita Fernández, Cesar Rodriguez, and Daniel Everett.

The book originated from a realization that Greene reached while writing and researching his previous books; Greene concluded that the people he studied had similar paths to success. After finishing The 50th Law, Greene focused on this concept in writing Mastery.

I: Discover Your Calling: The Life’s Task
II: Submit to Reality: The Ideal Apprenticeship
__Step One: Deep Observation - The Passive Mode
__Step Two: Skills Acquisition - The Practice Mode
__Step Three: Experimentation - The Active Mode
__Strategies for Completing the Ideal Apprenticeship
III: Absorb the Master’s Power: The Mentor Dynamic
__Strategies for Deepening the Mentor Dynamic
IV: See People as They Are: Social Intelligence
__General Knowledge - The Seven Deadly Realities
__Strategies for Acquiring Social Intelligence
V: Awaken the Dimensional Mind: The Creative-Active
__Step One: The Creative Task
__Step Two: Creative Strategies
__Step Three: The Creative Breakthrough
__Strategies for the Creative-Active Phase
____1. The Authentic Voice
____2. The Fact of Great Yield
____3. Mechanical Intelligence
____4. Natural Powers
____5. The Open Field
____6. The High End
____7. The Evolutionary Hijack
____8. Dimensional Thinking
____9. Alchemical Creativity and the Unconscious
VI: Fuse the Intuitive with the Rational: Mastery
__Strategies for Attaining Mastery
____1. Connect to your environment—Primal Powers
____2. Play to your strengths—Supreme Focus
____3. Transform yourself through practice—The Fingertip Feel
____4. Internalize the details—The Life Force
____5. Widen your vision—the Global Perspective
____6. Submit to the other—The Inside-out Perspective
____7. Synthesize all forms of knowledge—The Universal Man/Woman


Masters excel because of their ability to practice harder and move faster through the process, all stemming from the intensity of their desire to learn and from the deep connection they feel to their field of study.
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.
First, you must see your attempt attaining mastery as something extremely necessary and positive.
Second, you must convince yourself of the following: people get the mind and quality of brain that they deserve through their actions in life.