20 Lessons Of Mastery Learned From Robert Greene 1 - Understand who you truly are, and what kind of vocation or career you feel called to do. 2 - Commit to an apprenticeship, in which you undergo years of humble observation, skill acquisition, and experimentation. 3 - Revert to a feeling of inferiority, and possess and deep humility and eagerness to learn from others. 4 - Move toward resistance and pain, let go of need for comfort/security, and cross the threshold past the initial tedious stages of learning. 5 - After apprenticeship phase, you must become bold, confident, and willing to test out skills and make connections between different ideas. 6 - Learn to embrace criticism and failure, and be grateful for the opportunity to learn and improve as a result of your mistakes. 7 - Understand that there is an emotional component, not intellectual, that separates the true masters from others. 8 - Develop your social intelligence, and your ability to empathetically put yourself in another person’s shoes and see/understand things from his or her perspective. 9 - Move past the habitual tendency to judge others or idealize/demonize them, and simply observe them rather than projecting your own thoughts, emotions, or insecurities onto them. 10 - You must be wary of many peoples’ tendencies to display certain vices that could hinder your progress, such as: envy, conformism, rigidity, self- obsessiveness, laziness, flightiness, and passive aggression. 11 - Learn to speak through your work, and to win others to your side of thinking by being patient and letting what you have done speak for itself. 12 - Try to see yourself as other see you, so that you can remain emotionally detached and try to improve upon your flaws and shortcomings. 13 - Suffer fools gladly, and don’t take criticism seriously or personally from people who don’t know what they’re talking about. 14 - Return to your childlike sense of wonder and endless curiosity about all things in order to stimulate your creative energy. 15 - Drop all preconceived notions about he world, and utilize the power of your imagination to the fullest. 16 - Always be open and receptive to new ideas that challenge conventionality, and don’t be afraid of thinking something that is unpopular. 17 - Love learning for its own sake, and connect a wide array of ideas from different fields of study and disciplines. 18 - Maintain a sense of destiny/purpose and feel consciously connected to it. 19 - Qualities that will help you succeed: Self- discipline, desire, persistence, focus, effort, patience, energy, obsessiveness, observance, confidence, trust in self, emotional commitment, humility, adaptability, boldness, openness. 20 - Qualities that hinder your success: Complacency, conservatism, dependency, impatience, grandiosity, inflexibility, distractibility, becoming egotistical, close- mindedness.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:15:28 +0000