Mastery
By: Robert Greene
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780670024964; 9780143124177
Subjects: Successful people; Self-actualization (Psychology); Success
Description: Robert Greene, the "modern Machiavelli" debunks the prevailing mythology of success and presents a radical new way to greatness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-322) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ultimate power ; The evolution of mastery ; Keys to mastery; title: Discover your calling : the life's task. The hidden force ; Keys to mastery ; Strategies for finding your life's task ; Reversal; title: Submit to reality : the ideal apprenticeship. The first transformation ; Keys to mastery ; Strategies for completing the ideal apprenticeship ; Reversal; title: Absorb the master's power : the mentor dynamic. The alchemy of knowledge ; Keys to mastery ; Strategies for deepening the mentor relationship ; Reversal; title: See people as they are : social intelligence. Thinking inside ; Keys to mastery ; Strategies for acquiring social intelligence ; Reversal; title: Awaken the dimensional mind : the creative-active. The second transformation ; Keys to mastery ; Strategies for the creative-active phase ; Reversal; title: Fuse the intuitive with the rational : mastery. The third transformation ; Keys to mastery ; Strategies for attaining mastery ; Reversal; title: Contemporary master biographies.