15 Takeaways From Robert Greene’s Mastery

I enjoyed reading Robert Green’s ‘Mastery’.

The first big take-home was the definition he gave to Mastery: ‘Mastery is when the mind is no longer trapped by consciousness and yet able to create conscious solutions and innovations that are highly valuable’.Well, the journey to mastery is no easy thing, but according to him, anyone can achieve mastery.

Here are some key steps:

1. Take your life as a form of apprenticeship to which you learn, apply and get instructions on what is working or otherwise.
2. CONSTANTLY revisit the rebellion you had to conformity and constantly challenging yourself to explore and do better.
3. Learn social intelligence and be deliberate about the persona you project to others.
4. Seek honest feedback.
5. Look at what is having an impact in the world and then asking how that can be applied in other ways.
6. Keep an internal dialogue between what you observe and what you think.
7. Document your thoughts and keep alert for insight and record them immediately.
8. Think creatively: look at things from a variety of different perspectives, how they are related and how they impact each other.
9. Constantly question your work and the understanding of it.
10. Be in constant awareness of what is around you.
11. Always connect the actions you are taking with the bigger vision, a connection to reality and a commitment to disciplined study.
12. Know your strength and passions and work effectively with them.
13. Make sure you are able to engage your strength for success.
14. Never become trapped by considering only your point of view.
15. Share your knowledge as far and wide as you possibly can.

Mastery is possible! Have an amazing week! You can find Robert Greene’s book on Scribd, here is a code to get 60 days FREE access to Scribd.com https://www.scribd.com/ga/71nk2y.

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