Mastery (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene Book 1)

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Do get a copy of the bookfor the full details, or get our Mastery book summary bundle for an overview of the various ideas and tips. Mastery: You have such high levels of focus, knowledge and experience that you can see the full picture and bend/change the rules to achieve spectacular results. It typically takes at least 10,000 hours of intense practice, or about 20 years to attain the required combination of skills, knowledge, and intuition. Advance through trial and error: Try out different paths and adopt new skills, avoid following a fixed career path, especially spend your 20s moving around and exploring different paths, learning everything you can along the way. Finally, you must see your career or vocational path more as a journey with twists and turns rather than a straight line. You begin by choosing a field or position that roughly corresponds to your inclinations. This initial position offers you room to maneuver and important skills to learn. You don’t want to start with something too lofty, too ambitious— you need to make a living and establish some confidence. Once on this path you discover certain side routes that attract you, while other aspects of this field leave you cold. You adjust and perhaps move to a related field, continuing to learn more about yourself, but always expanding off your skill base. Like Leonardo, you take what you do for others and make it your own.” Value learning over money: Einstein working at the patent office to give himself time to work on his thought experiments. Learn to get by on little money and give yourself the time to learn as much as possible.

We enter a new field with excitement, but also fear about how much there is to learn ahead of us. The greatest danger here is boredom, impatience, fear, and confusion. Once we stop observing and learning, the process towards mastery comes to a halt. Ancient Eastern wisdom: “Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.” How long will it take me to master Aikido?” a prospective student asks. “How long do you expect to live?” is the only respectable response. This book is definitely aimed at those new to the sport or those wanting to know more about how the art has developed in the past 20 years. It is not going to offer a whole lot new to coaches, fighters or practitioners wanting drills, concepts or sport insights.I like the formatting and structure of this book. It is definitely a book for those who want specific walk throughs on individual techniques, movements and fundamentals. Ben Thapa. Interviewing Robert Greene about Mastery, Hustle, Fear, Boxing and MMA. Bloody Elbow. November 12, 2012. Great book! This is a really comprehensive guide to training, covering techniques and drills for striking, defence, counters, and clinching, plus there's lots of info on strength, cardio and flexibility too. It's got all you need to know! Because it tries to cover quite a lot, it does not go as in-depth into each subject as you would find in the books already mentioned in this post.

Each chapter features a world class coach from a variety of different martial arts. Muay Thai is one of them and is the art most coaches originate from within this book. Focuses a lot on how to do single techniques and movements without showing transitions, combinations etc Coaching points and photos show a variety of different training applications. These include both how to hold different pads such as focus pads and Thai pads. As well as basic striking and combination drills with each

Mastery is the sensation that you’re in full control of yourself, your environment and reality. As a master, you can enjoy both money and fulfillment doing what you naturally love. Another of the newer books in this list here. Muay Thai Mastery from Jerry Laurita was first published in 2021. As a result it benefits from a more modern approach with regards to how it is put together.