Mastery: Robert Greene (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene)

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The author says that social intelligence is about seeing people for who they really are, what motivates them, and what their manipulating tendencies are. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. When you are young and have less experience of the world, this abstract knowledge is hard to put into practice.

In this Mastery summary, we’ll briefly outline the key concepts, processes and strategies involved in attaining mastery, fulfillment and success in your life.The intuition part is essential: his theory is that we gain deep knowledge about a field, so when we face new problems, we are able to activate the disparate parts of our deep memory that turn things up. Occupy the Perfect Niche: overcrowded fields are attractive because everybody’s there, but you get lost in politicking and can’t focus on mastery.

So, we had better get clear on what is holding us back, because it is an achievable goal for most of us. Greene is not David Foster Wallace, nor does he wish to be—he includes just enough SAT words to read as authoritative but layman-friendly. Greene pitched a book about power to Elffers and wrote a treatment which eventually became The 48 Laws of Power.Suffer fools gladly: fools are governed by their ego and are more interested in public approval and their personal career than in the truth. During childhood, our minds are totally open, we experience the world using all our senses and anything seems possible.

But I don't mind saying that I stumbled on it in a very down period in my life, and it gave me a lot of clarity when I needed it most".

Still, the book is targeted at those who can tolerate seeing life as a stage, and most people would prefer their own version of reality. On this quest for power we usually find that we have personal obstacles that get in our way, that we struggle to overcome, and block us at every turn. The premise of Greene’s next book in our Robert Greene book review 33 Strategies takes centuries of military tactics and intelligence and applies them to every-day life. How Yoky Matsuoka created the modern robotic hand, and what the rest of us can learn from her GeekWire. You may not see this, but you can be sure that the public will feel it and that they will receive your work in the same lackluster spirit it was created in.