• Login
  • Register
  • Home
  • Food
    • Entrees
    • Appetizers
    • Beverage
    • Dessert
    • Soup
  • Life
    • Events & Activities
  • DIY
    • Body Care
  • Reviews
    • Book Reviews
    • Product Reviews
  • About
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Food
    • Entrees
    • Appetizers
    • Beverage
    • Dessert
    • Soup
  • Life
    • Events & Activities
  • DIY
    • Body Care
  • Reviews
    • Book Reviews
    • Product Reviews
  • About
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Book Reviews
  • Summary of Mastery by George Leonard

Summary of Mastery by George Leonard

Posted on Aug 28th, 2017
by Ellina
Categories:
  • Book Reviews
  • Reviews
mastery by george leonard

Mastery by George Leonard is another book has been highly recommended by gurus on YouTube. After reading the book, I feel what the book is trying to describe is something we all know, but probably it’s hard for everyone to consistently follow. In order to become Mastery, we need to follow the first-rate instructions, to enjoy regular practice for its own sake, to push your capabilities to accept the plateau, to surrender to what your teacher teaches you.

George Leonard describes the personality traits and mental attitudes that help people in different fields of expertise reach the top, become the master, and the key ingredients for you to be succeed.

The book is talking about the following 5 keys to mastery:

Key 1: Instruction — The best thing you can do for the journey on the path of mastery is to arrange for first-rate instruction.

Key 2: Practice, Practice, and Practice — When the time you don’t seem like to have any progress and you have spent most of your time on a plateau, you still need to practice, continuously practice. After you pass the period, you suddenly get better and make great improvements.

Goals and contingencies are important, but they exist in the future and the past, beyond the pale of the sensory realm. Practice, the path of mastery, exists only in the present. You can see it, hear it, smell it, feel it. To love the plateau is love the eternal now, to enjoy the inevitable spurts of progress and the fruits of accomplishment, then serenely to accept the new plateau that waits just beyond them. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

Key 3: Surrender — To your teacher and to the demands of your discipline. Surrender your proficiency to reach a higher level of proficiency. Surrender means there are no experts, only learners.

Be willing to look like a fool.

Key 4: Intentionality — Visualization combines deep relaxation will increase the speed of your learning process.

Key5: The Edge — Masters challenge previous limits, take risks for higher performance, and even become obsessive in that pursuit. It’s not either/or. It’s both/and.

But before you even consider playing this edge, there must be many years of instruction, practice, surrender, and intentionality. And afterwards? More training, more time on the plateau. The never-ending path again.

Dealing with Change and Homeostasis

  • No matter a good or bad change, our system will resist any changes, so be aware of the way homeostasis works. Don’t give up at the first sign of trouble.
  • Be willing to negotiate with your resistance to change. Negotiate with your resistance, by using pain as a guide to performance.
  • Develop a support system of other people who share the joys of the change you’ve making.
  • Follow a regular practice
  • Dedicate yourself to lifelong learning.

Getting Energy for Mastery

  • Maintain physical fitness
  • Acknowledge the negative and accentuate the positive
  • Try telling the truth
  • Honor but don’t indulge your own dark side
  • Set your priority
  • Make commitments. Take action
  • Get on the path of mastery and stay on it

Pitfalls Along the path

  • Conflicting way of life
  • Obsessive goal orientation
  • poor instruction
  • lack of competitiveness
  • over-competitiveness
  • laziness
  • injuries
  • Drugs
  • Prizes and Medals
  • Vanity
  • Dead seriousness
  • Inconsistency
  • Perfectionism

This is what I learned from the book. I hope the summary is useful to you on your journey to mastery.

Related Self-Help Books:

Option B Summary

The Go Giver Summary

The Fred Factor Summary

Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Summary

Built to Sell Summary

 

 

(Visited 643 times, 1 visits today)
Click here to bookmark this
  • book reviews
  • non-fiction books
  • self-help books

Ellina

I work and live in New York, and primarily I am working for a financial firm, on my personal life, I am a food blogger! Enjoy cooking, dancing and having good meals.

About Me

About Me

Welcome to my site! I hope you enjoy reading my site and find the recipes are useful to you!




SIGN UP FOR NEWSLETTER

Subscribe for our weekly recipes,tips and post, we promise to not spam you

Categories

DIY

DIY

Food

Food

Life

Life

Reviews

Reviews

Popular Posts

  • Green Bean Cake (绿豆糕)Green Bean Cake (绿豆糕) Green Bean Cake is a seasonal dessert for summer which…
  • Black Sesame Puree (黑芝麻糊)Black Sesame Puree (黑芝麻糊) Black Sesame Puree is one of my favorite dessert drinks.…
  • Rosebuds and Lemon Tea -- Recipe special for womenRosebuds and Lemon Tea — Recipe special for women A lot of my friends are always wondering why Asian…

Popular Cuisines

American

American

Chinese

Chinese

French

French

Greek

Greek

Indian

Indian

Italian

Italian

Japanese

Japanese

Spanish

Spanish




Popular Tags

Appertizer beverage book book review book reviews business book business books Date Paste Dessert DIY easy entrees fiction book fiction books greek food Historical Jewish Fiction Hyperloop investment Mediterranean Style Memoir Books Millionaire mutual funds new investor non-fiction books Out of the Gobi pasta psychology books public speaking quick relationship books romantical novel seafood self-help self-help books Self-improvement Soy Milk Maker recipes stocks sweet soup TED Talks Summary The cultural revolution vegan Warren Buffett women health wonton soup WWII Novel

Instagram Feed



Follow on Instagram


Popular Recipes

  • Green Bean Cake (绿豆糕)Green Bean Cake (绿豆糕)
  • Black Sesame Puree (黑芝麻糊)Black Sesame Puree (黑芝麻糊)
  • Rosebuds and Lemon Tea -- Recipe special for womenRosebuds and Lemon Tea — Recipe special for women

Popular Categories

DIY

DIY

Food

Food

Life

Life

Reviews

Reviews

Resources

Chinese Lawyers

Happy Home Keeping

Pinch of Yum Resources

  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • About Us