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3 Personality Types That Are Obstacles to Mastery
- The Dabbler: Starts everything with enthusiasm. He delights in signs of progress. The plateau that follows is unacceptable and he starts looking around for new things.
- The Obsessive: He or she knows results are what count, and he wants them fast. He simply won't accept a plateau. He redoubles his effort. He pushes himself mercilessly and is likely to get hurt.
- The Hacker: After sort of getting the hang of a thing, he or she is willing to stay on the plateau indefinitely. At work, he does only enough to get by, leaves on time or early, takes every break, talks instead of doing his job, and wonders why he doesn't get promoted.
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The Anti-Mastery Mentality
It is focused on quick fixes: Heart surgery rather than diet and exercise. Lottery tickets rather than retirement savings.
"Fast, temporary relief" is the battle cry. Symptoms receive immediate attention; underlying causes remain in the shadows.
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Learning Generally Occurs In Stages
- A stage ends when the habitual system has been programmed to the new task, and the cognitive and effort systems have withdrawn.
- This means you can perform the task without making a special effort to think of its separate parts.
- At this point, there's an apparent spurt of le...
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Pitfalls Along the Path Of Mastery
- Conflicting way of life
- Obsessive goal orientation
- Poor instruction
- Lack of competitiveness
- Overcompetitiveness
- Laziness
- Injuries
- Drugs. If you're on drugs, you're not on the path
- Prizes and medals
- Vanity
- Dead se...
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The Mastery Curve
Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it.
To take the master's journey, you have to practice diligently, to attain new level...
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Definition Of Mastery
Mastery is the curious process during which what is at first difficult becomes progressively easier and more pleasurable through practice.
If there is any sure route to success and fulfillment in life, it is to be found in the long-term, essentially goalless process...
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"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."
GEORGE LEONARD
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The Most Successful Path To Mastery
Practice for the sake of the practice itself. Not for the result.
Rather than being frustrated while on the plateau, you learn to appreciate and enjoy it just as much as you do the upward surges.
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"To see the teacher clearly, look at the students. They are his work of art."
GEORGE LEONARD
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"Ultimately, liberation comes through the acceptance of limits. You can't do everything, but you can do one thing, and then another and another. In terms of energy, it's better to make a wrong choice than none at all."
GEORGE LEONARD
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"A human being is the kind of machine that wears out from lack of use. There are limits, of course, and we do need healthful rest and relaxation, but for the most part we gain energy by using energy. Often the best remedy for physical weariness is thirty minutes of aerobic exercise. In th...
GEORGE LEONARD
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The Five Keys To Mastery
- Instruction: For mastering most skills, there's nothing better than being in the hands of a master teacher, either one-to-one or in a small group.
- Practice: It can be anything you practice on a regular basis as an integral part of your life—not in o...
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Our Resistance To Change
Resistance is proportionate to the size and speed of the change, not to whether the change is a favorable or unfavorable one.
Every one of us resists significant change, no matter whether it's for the worse or for the better. Our body, brain, and behavior have a built-in te...
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What We Call Intelligence Comes In Many Varieties
- Linguistic
- Musical
- Logical/mathematical
- Spatial
- Bodily/kinesthetic
- Two types of personal intelligences that might be described as intrapersona...
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