MindMap-BookSummary-Mastery

MindMap-BookSummary-Mastery

• About The Book
  • Title: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
  • Author: George Leonard
  • Released: 01 February, 1992
  • ISBN: 0452267560
• 5 keys to long-term success and fulfillment, as:
  • 1. Instruction
  • 2. Practice
  • 3. Surrender
  • 4. Intentionality
  • 5. The Edge – Push the envelope.
• Mastery is:
  • 1. The process where what was difficult becomes both easier and more pleasurable;

    2. Long-term dedication to the journey – not the bottom line;

    3. Gaining mental discipline to travel further on your journey;

    4. Being goal-less;

    5. Realizing that the pleasure of practice is intensified;

    6. Creating deep roots;

    7. Knowing that you will never reach a final destination;

    8. Being diligent with the process of mastery;

    9. Your commitment to hone your skills;

    10. After you have reached the top of the mountain, climb another one;

    11. Being willing to practice, even when you seem to be getting nowhere;

    12. Making this a life process;

    13. Being patient, while you apply long-term efforts;

    14. Appreciating and even enjoying the plateau, as much as you do the progress;

    15. Practicing for the sake of practice;

    16. Winning graciously, and lose with equal grace;

    17. Placing practice, discipline, conditioning and character development before winning;

    18. Being courageous;

    19. Being fully in the present moment;

    20. Realizing that the ultimate goal is not the medal, or the ribbon, but the path to mastery its self;

    21. Being willing to look foolish;

    22. Maintaining flexibility in your strategy, and in your actions;

    23. A journey.

• Dealing with Change and Homeostasis
  • 1. Be aware of the way homeostasis works.
  • 2. Be willing to negotiate with your resistance to change.
  • 3. Develop a support system.
  • 4. Follow a regular practice.
  • 5. Dedicate yourself to a lifelong practice.
• Getting Energy for Mastery
  • 1. Maintain Physical Fitness
  • 2. Acknowledge the negative and accentuate the positive.
  • 3. Try telling the truth.
  • 4. Honor but don’t indulge your own dark side.
  • 5. Set your priorities.
  • 6. Make commitments. Take action.
  • 7. Get on the path of mastery and stay on it.
• Pitfalls Along the path of Mastery:
  • 1. Conflicting way of life
  • 2. Obsessive goal orientation
  • 3. Poor instruction
  • 4. Lack of competitiveness
  • 5. Over competitiveness
  • 6. Laziness
  • 7. Injuries
  • 8. Drugs
  • 9. Prizes and Medals
  • 10. Vanity
  • 11. Dead seriousness
  • 12. Inconsistency
  • 13. Perfectionism
• Compiled By:
  • blindcaveman.wordpress.com
  • Rigel Arcayan