Every one of us has probably had a few rare moments in their lives where the felt an inner voice calling out to them. In business, some people can make a lot of money in a short amount of time (corporate raiders, finance whiz kids, tech startups), but often there is very little value created for others or the national economy. The individual gets rich, but the world doesn’t get much better. Is this really a better path than the one of the craftsman? Someone who slowly and methodically improves, contributes something useful and valuable to society, and makes enough money in the process (despite not getting rich)? The first book in channeler Paul Selig’s widely anticipated Mastery Trilogy leads you into an unprecedented journey of self-development, at once building your personal excellence and your ability to improve life for others. PDF / EPUB File Name: Mastery_-_The_Keys_To_Success_And_Long-Ter_-_George_Leonard.pdf, Mastery_-_The_Keys_To_Success_And_Long-Ter_-_George_Leonard.epub

On mastery in relationships: In today’s world two partners are rarely willing to live indefinitely on an unchanging plateau. When your tennis partner starts improving his or her game and you don’t, the game eventually breaks up. The same thing applies to relationships. Benjamin Franklin could’ve swooped in on his father’s successful candle-making business. Instead, he took a printing job, which he knew would help him master the art of words much faster. Lesson 3: Once you complete your apprenticeship, challenge everything you learned. If there is any sure route to success and fulfillment in life, it is to be found in the long-term, essentially goalless process of mastery. George Leonard has taken this rarely practiced art and laid it out to us in a format so simple, most of us could read through it in a day or two. Throughout the book he relates his personal path to the mastery of Aikido to that of all our individual journey’s. You can certainly tell that he speaks from experience.I feel like many of the stories and examples that make the book come to life have been left by the wayside in this summary. The general ideas are solid and hold up, and it’s an inspiring read (especially the part about listening to your inner voice), but I can’t shake the feeling that there’s more to Masterythan that. This is my book summary of Mastery by George Leonard. My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts. This summary includes key lessons and important passages from the book. Leonard también explica majestuosamente lo siguiente: vivamos en el ahora, en lo que podemos hacer hoy, en aquello que podamos controlar, ahí vamos a disfrutar los frutos de nuestro éxito. No trabajemos por una meta, por un día, por el dinero, si lo hacemos con esta mentalidad nos vamos a decepcionar cuando lleguemos ahí.

Why do we resist our own most constructive and creative impulses and squander our best energy on busywork?" (pg 120)Perhaps the best you can hope for on the master's journey—whether your art be management or marriage, badminton or ballet—is to cultivate the mind and heart of the beginning at every stage along the way. For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners." A job that pays more now will probably offer you less support and education, which will pay for itself 10 times over down the road. Leonard gives us the tools to take what interests and excites us and to apply the keys to mastery to allow us unreal success. Someone intently dedicated to success is just as strongly dedicated to mastery. The journey is endless which in turn makes the fulfillment just as eternal as we live our lives. As you read each chapter think about your mentors and heroes or the famous greats of the past. Be it Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ben Franklin or whoever you look up to. They all had something in common. They were masters of their life’s passion and have been practicing since the beginning. To learn is to change. Education, whether it involves books, body, or behavior, is a process that changes the learner."

Definition of mastery: the mysterious process during which what is at first difficult becomes progressively easier and more pleasurable through practice. Qué tienen en común los maestros? Aman la práctica, se rinden a sus profesores y no se conforman con entrenar o practicar todos los días. What I really liked about this book is that it can be first used as an introduction to the topic of mastery but then it serves as a step by step guide to making mastery a part of your life. The instruction starts with the reasons why mastery is so rarely practiced these days and the various things people default to instead. Mastery takes extreme discipline and love for practice and improvement. This is something our society rarely has the patience for with our “get it done yesterday” attitude. The human individual is equipped to learn and go on learning prodigiously from birth to death, and this is precisely what sets him or her apart from all other known forms of life. Man has at various times been defined as a building animal, a working animal, and a fighting animal, but all of these definitions are incomplete and finally false. Man is a learning animal, and the essence of the species is encoded in that simple term."I managed to collect some interesting quotes during my reading which I would like to share with you all below :

Rendirse al proceso, al esfuerzo diario, al plateau, a los momentos en los que pareciera no estamos progresando. Esa es la clave de los maestros. At first I was a bit frightened of using such a new approach, but now I really enjoy it. I am learning as well! We use the dictionary more, in looking things up, and thinking about what things mean.” But recognition is often unsatisfying and fame is like seawater for the thirsty. Love of your work, willingness to stay with it even in the absence of extrinsic reward, is good food and good drink." pg. 47.Ancient Eastern wisdom: “Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.” Contingencies, no question about it, are important. The achievement of goals is important. But the real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive. "