Each one of us has within us the potential to be a Master—learn how to unlock the passion within and achieve it.
Each one of us has within us the potential to be a Master. Learn the secrets of the field you have chosen, submit to a rigorous apprenticeship, absorb the hidden knowledge possessed by those with years of experience, surge past competitors to surpass them in brilliance, and explode established patterns from within.
Robert Greene shares the secret path to greatness. With Mastery as a guide, readers will learn how to unlock the passion within and become masters.
Mastery Video Summary
Fight Mediocrity & Productivity Game
Key Takeaways
Key 1: Follow Your Inclination
So many people are only mediocre at what they do because they have little interest in what they’re doing. This is exactly how you’ll never achieve mastery. To become a master, you are going to have to put in thousands and thousands of hours into your craft. You are simply not going to be able to do that if you do not follow your inclination and do what you’re deeply interested in.
Occupy the perfect niche – the Darwinian strategy. In this strategy you need to find the career niche that best fits your interests and talents and then evolve that niche over time.
Key 2 & 3: Apprenticeship and Mentors
You have a limited amount of time. You can’t be spending days or weeks figuring things out on your own when you can be taught in a few hours.
1. Deep Observation this is a time to observe everything. How does the system work? What are the people that are successful in my niche doing? Not 100% of what you observe and learn is going to be right or optimal in any apprenticeship or from any mentor. But that doesn’t matter.
2. Skills Acquisition this is where you start putting in your 10,000 hours, practicing, studying and mastering your craft.
3. Transfigure the Idea finally you take everything you’ve learned, the foundation and skill, and put your own uniqueness on it and create something great.
You can put in all the hours and hard work towards mastering your craft, but get completely thrown off that path if you lack social intelligence. Cultivate your social intelligence.
Key 5: Awaken the Dimensional Mind
1. Original Mind crazy and creative, but no skill.
2. Conventional Mind no longer creative or crazy. Skill, but no creativity.
3. Dimensional Mind combines the craziness and creativity of the original mind, with the mastery of thousands of hours of expertise. When you combine these two that’s when you come up with true mastery. Creativity + Skill = Mastery
Key 6: Fuse the Intuitive With the Rational
Both are extremely important, but we tend to blue the rationale mind and ignore the intuitive mind. Masters accomplish great things because they can combine the intuitive mind with the rational mind.
1. Intuitive Mind having the ability to understand or know something without any direct evidence or reasoning process.
2. Rational Mind people or ideas that operate according to logic or reason.
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” -Albert Einstein
