Resenhas - Mastery

Moitta 16/10/2014

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.

people get the mind and quality of brain that they deserve through their actions in life.

You begin by choosing a field or position that roughly corresponds to your inclinations. This initial position offers you room to maneuver and important skills to learn. You don't want to start with something too lofty, too ambitious - you need to make a living and establish some confidence. Once on this path you discover certain side routes that attract you, while other aspects of this field leave you cold. You adjust

Become who you are by learning who you are.

deep wonder, sensual pleasure, power, and heightened awareness

You must dig for signs of such inclinations in your earliest years. Look for its traces in visceral reactions to something simple; a desire to repeat an activity that you never tired of; a subject that stimulated an unusual degree of curiosity; feelings of power attached to particular actions. It is already there within you.

A false path in life is generally something we are attracted to for the wrong reasons: money, fame, attention, and so on.

In dealing with your career and its inevitable changes, you must think in the following way: You are not tied to a particular position; your loyalty is not to a career or a company. You are committed to your Life's Task, to giving it full expression. It is up to you to find it and guide it correctly.

The road to mastery requires patience. You will have to keep your focus on five or ten years down the road, when you will reap the rewards of your efforts.

the goal of an apprenticeship is not money, a good position, a title, or a diploma, but rather the transformation of your mind and character-the first transformation on the way to mastery.

Your knowledge of the world is subjective, based on emotions, insecurities, and limited experience. Slowly, you will ground yourself in reality, in the objective world represented by the knowledge and skills that make people successful in it.

Practical knowledge is the ultimate commodity, and is what will pay you dividends for decades to come

These steps are: Deep Observation (The Passive Mode), Skills Acquisition (The Practice Mode), and Experimentation (The Active Mode).

As much as possible, you want to reduce these skills to something simple and essential-the core of what you need to get good at, skills that can be practiced.

Later in life, when you are confronted with a career change or the need to learn new skills, having gone through this process before, it will become second nature. You have learned how to learn.

In general, no matter your field, you must think of yourself as a builder, using actual materials and ideas.

It is a simple law of human psychology that your thoughts will tend to revolve around what you value most.

But the paradox is that the mind is essentially free. It can travel anywhere, across time and space. If she kept it confined to her narrow circumstances, it would be her own fault. No matter how impossible it seemed, she could not let go of her dream to become a writer.

if you want to learn and set yourself up for mastery, you have to do it yourself, and with great energy. When you enter this phase, you generally begin at the lowest position. Your access to knowledge and people is limited by your status. If you are not careful, you will accept this status and become defined by it, particularly if you come from a disadvantaged background. Instead, like Hurston, you must struggle against any limitations and continually work to expand your horizons. (In each learning situation you will submit to reality, but that reality does not mean you must stay in one place.)

Whenever you feel like you are settling into some circle, force yourself to shake things up and look for new challenges, as Hurston did when she left Howard for Harlem.

If he wanted to learn Pirahã as the children did, he would have to become like a child-dependent on these people for survival, participating in their daily activities, entering their social circles, feeling in fact inferior and in need of their support. (Losing any sense of superiority would later lead to a personal crisis, in which he would lose faith in his role as a missionary and leave the church for good.)

If we feel like we know something, our minds close off to other possibilities. We see reflections of the truth we have already assumed.

Such feelings of superiority are often unconscious and stem from a fear of what is different or unknown. We are rarely aware of this, and often imagine ourselves to be paragons of impartiality.

In moments of doubt in the present, the memory of the past experience rises to the surface. Filled with trust in the process, they trudge on well past the point at which others slow down or mentally quit.

What he did not like about Endymion was the flowery language, the overwriting. But it was only by means of this exercise that he could discover what worked for him.

Never again would he suffer from writer's block-he had trained himself to write past any obstacle.

To attain mastery, you must adopt what we shall call Resistance Practice. The principle is simple-you go in the opposite direction of all of your natural tendencies when it comes to practice.

When a machine malfunctions you do not take it personally or grow despondent. It is in fact a blessing in disguise. Such malfunctions generally show you inherent flaws and means of improvement. You simply keep tinkering until you get it right.

We humans live in two worlds. First, there is the outer world of appearances-all of the forms of things that captivate our eye. But hidden from our view is another world-how these things actually function, their anatomy or composition, the parts working together and forming the whole.

The process of learning through trial and error was immensely satisfying. He could discover things on his own, without having to follow a rigid path set up by others. (This is the essence of being a ''hacker''

figuring things out through constant trial and error, finding out what worked by doing it. Shaping his life in this haphazard way, he learned what to avoid-academia; working for large companies; any political environment. He liked the process of making things. What really mattered to him in the end was having possibilities-being able to go in this or that direction, depending on what life presented to him.

You are not wandering about because you are afraid of commitment, but because you are expanding your skill base and your possibilities

You must not be afraid of this emotional component to the relationship. It is precisely what makes you learn more deeply and efficiently.

The mentor, or father figure, gives you just such a standard from which you can deviate and establish your own identity. You internalize the important and relevant parts of their knowledge, and you apply the knife to what has no bearing on your life.

At each phase of life you must find the appropriate teachers, getting what you want out of them, moving on, and feeling no shame for this. It is the path your own mentor probably took and it is the way of the world.

To reach mastery requires some toughness and a constant connection to reality.

If they shy away from giving it, force them to hold up the mirror that will reflect you as you are.

The root cause of all passive aggression is the human fear of direct confrontation-the emotions that a conflict can churn up and the loss of control that ensues.

your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence. By being efficient and detail oriented in what you do, you demonstrate that you are thinking of the group at large and advancing its cause.

By making what you write or present clear and easy to follow, you show your care for the audience or public at large. By involving other people in your projects and gracefully accepting their feedback, you reveal your comfort with the group dynamic.

Gigin 06/04/2023

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