Mastery: Personal Development and Leadership

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MASTERY: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP (NOTES FOR WEEK 1) 1

MASTERY, by Robert Greene

Introduction (p.1-15)

The Ultimate Power

Mastery

Greene (2012) defines mastery as, "The feeling that we have a greater command of reality, other people, and ourselves".

The Process of Mastery (Three Phases)

Apprenticeship

Learning the basic elements and rules from outside the field.

Creative-Active

Through practice and immersion, a deeper knowledge is developed from within the field. Experimentation and creativity emerge within the individual's ability to comprehend and manipulate the elements and rules of the field.

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Mastery Week 1: Go To Live Session Notes

Overview of the Specifics of the Class from Eric

- Specifics for the course, expectations for the course.

- Remembering that four months is a month, each week equates to a month.

- Creating a plan of action, approach it each week equates to a month at a traditional school.

- Teaching from a place of self discovery, if I can do it, then other people can. (Miles, 2017)

- Mastery will challenge how you see yourself and how you will move forward.

- Get a plan of action - Set aside 2 hours aside per/day for studying.

- Gotta like what you do, and enjoy the process.

- Go To Live Session are one hour long.

Course Structure

discussion board post a week, it is worth more than any other assignments.

Week 2 - Who do I admire and do research on within journalism?

- Create a new Tumblr

Week 3 - Create a new Tumblr. Creating a brain

Week 4 - Timeline presentation. Create a powerpoint or keynote presentation

Week 5 - Professionalism grade. All assignments are due no later than 11:59 pm EST on Sunday. Eric suggests homework is due on Saturday.

Discussion Board -

Initial post No later than Wednesday night 11:59 EST.

Definitely join Clubs ( On Full Sail Connect)

Use the grading rubric as your friend.

Paragraph in text citation for online.

Turning Point Video

Do four strategies in the beginning.

In the insights section - four strategies

Save the last strategy for your Turning Point Story

Introduction on Camera, final part on Camera. Citation at the end.

For shooting, make sure there is eye contact, good location, and decent lighting. DO NOT UPLOAD YOUR VIDEO DIRECTLY TO THE PLATFORM. Upload directly to vimeo or youtube. Upload on Saturday. Provide the link.

Make sure you upload unlisted or public. Do not do private.

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RANDY PAUSCH - "The Last Lecture" (Week 2 video)

The Last Lecture

An academic lecture based on the principle of, what if you were going to die, what would your last lecture be?"

His Lecture was about childhood dreams, and how you can achieve them.

Never lose the spirit of "Anything is possible"

"If you don't achieve your dreams, you can still get a lot by trying for it" (PAUSCH,

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted, PAUSCH citing an favorite expression of his regarding his inability to achieve his childhood dream of being in the NFL.

When your doing a bad job and nobody points it out to you, that's when they've given up on you.

The brick walls that are in our way are there for a reason. They are not there to keep us out. They are there to give us a way to show how much we want it.

Dr. PAUSCH's parents believed in creative expression, (ie. painting the walls)

The importance of people versus things - It's just a thing.

You better decide early on if your a tigger or an eeyore.

Never underestimate the power of fun.

Living with Integrity

*Work and play well with others

*Tell the Truth

*Apologize Promptly

(I'm sorry, it was my fault, how do i make it right?)

* No one is pure evil.

*Show gratitude

Don't complain; just work harder.

You can choose to take your finite time and energy and effort and you can spend it complaining, or you can spend it playing the game hard. Which is probably going to be more helpful to you in the long run.

We all have people that we don't like, that

No one is pure evil. If you wait long enough they will show you their good side. You can't make them do it in a hurry, but you can be patient.

If you live properly, the dreams will come to you.

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MASTERY: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP (Notes for Week 2)

MASTERY, by Robert Greene

Chapter V: Awaken the Dimensional Mind, The Creative Active (p.167-246)

The Second Transformation

This section featured an overview of Mozart's ascendancy to mastery, subsequently separating from

the traditional musical techniques instilled by his father from which he left to live in Vienna. It was Mozart's experimentation through his mastery of different genres that he began to develop his own style of composing operas and symphonies.

Keys to Mastery

Original Mind

Greene (2012) explains that the original mind is the malleable, preverbal mind state relating back to childhood; that directly experienced the world in images and sensations as a game to be experimented with. (p.175)

Conventional Mind

The post childhood mind state that is rigid, defensive and limited to the belief system that has been fostered by life experience. (p.175)

Greene (2012) states that, " Masters not only retain the spirit of the Original Mind, but they add to it their years of apprenticeship and an ability to focus deeply on the problems or ideas" (Greene,2012,p.175).

Dimensional Mind

An active mind state, that transforms everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming. (p.176)

Greene (2012) explains that, " The Dimensional Mind has two essential requirements: one, a high level of knowledge about a field or subject; and two, the openness and flexibility within to use this knowledge in new and original ways" (Greene, 2012,p.177).

Greene (2012) explains that, "To awaken the Dimensional Mind and move through the creative process requires three essential steps: first, choosing the proper Creative Task, the kind of activity that will maximize our skills and knowledge second, loosening and opening up the mind through certain Creative Strategies; and third, creating the optimal mental conditions for a Breakthrough or Insight. Finally, throughout the process we must also be aware of the Emotional Pitfalls -complacency, boredom, grandiosity ,and the like-that continually threaten to derail or block our progress. If we can move through the steps while avoiding these traps, we cannot fail to unleash powerful creative forces from within" (Greene,2012,p.177).

Step One: The Creative Task

Greene (2012) states, " You must begin by altering your very concept of creativity and by trying to see it from a new angle" (Greene,2012,p.177).

Greene (2012) states, "The task that you choose to work on must have an obsessive element. Like the Life's Task, it must connect to something deep within you" (Greene,2012,p.178).

The Primary Law of the Creative Dynamic

Deeply engraining the emotional commitment to what you are doing that will be directly translated into your work.

Step Two: Creative Strategies

Greene states that there are five strategies to loosen the mind to let in alternative ways of thinking.

A. Cultivate Negative Capability

Negative Capability

The ability to endure and embrace mysteries and uncertainties. (Refers to Keats definition)

Greene (2012) states that all Masters possess Negative Capability, "This quality allows them to entertain a broader range of ideas and experiment with them, which in turn makes their work richer and more inventive" (Greene,2012,p.181).

Confirmation Bias

Entertaining ideas that fit your preconceptions that you want to believe in, and bias your choices of how to verify these ideas. Confirmation Bias article at Vox (https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/15/15585176/motivated-ignorance-politics-debate)

Greene refers to Keats appreciation of Shakespeare as the ideal observer of the world around him, " To Keats, William Shakespeare was the ideal because he did not judge his characters, but instead opened himself up to their worlds and expressed the reality of even those who were considered evil" (Greene,2012,p.182)

Greene (2012) states, "To negate the ego you must adopt a kind of humility towards knowledge" (Greene,2012,p.182).

B. Allow for Serendipity

Serendipity - The occurrence of chance associations and discoveries in moments of unstrained attention.

How to invite serendipity according to Greene:

The first step is to widen your search as far as possible. "In the research stage of your project, you look at more than what is generally required. You expand your search into other fields, reading and absorbingly related information. If you have a particular theory or hypothesis about a phenomenon, you examine as many examples and counterexamples as humanly possible. It might seem tiring and inefficient, but you must trust this process. What ensues is that the brain becomes increasingly excited and stimulated by the variety of information" (Greene,2012,p.184).

The second step is to maintain an openness and looseness of spirit. " In moments of of great tension and searching, you allow yourself moments of release" (Greene,2012,p.184). (i.e taking walks, engage in activities outside your work, or think about something else no matter how seemingly trivial.

Louis Pasteur, "Chance favors only the prepared mind" (Greene,2012,p.185).

Greene states referring to Edison's creation of the phonograph that, "In such a mind, every stimulus that enters the brain is processed, turned over, and reevaluated. Nothing is taken at face value. A whirring sound is never neutral, never merely a sound, but something to interpret, a possibility, a sign" (Greene, 2012, p.186).

Greene suggests keeping a notebook at all times, that you note it down.

Analogical Way of Thinking

Taking greater advantage of the associative powers of the mind.

C. Alternate The Mind through "The Current"

The Current

Is a mental process in which the observer makes visible the sight unseen through observation, speculation and verification. it is described by Greene as " (The Current) is like a mental electric charge that gains its power through a constant alternation. We observe something in the world that strikes our attention and makes us wonder what it might mean. In thinking about it, we devise several possible explanations. When we look at the phenomenon again we see it differently as we cycle through the various ideas we had imagined to account for it. Perhaps we conduct experiments to verify or alter our speculations. Now when we look at the phenomenon yet again, weeks or months later, we see more and more aspects of its hidden reality" (Greene,2012,p.187).

Short Circuiting

Observation a phenomenon in culture or nature that sparks an emotional response and rampant, unverified speculation.

Greene cites Buckminster Fuller's "artifacts", or speculative models of ideas he thought of to test against the public's and his own interest, as well as the feasibility of the idea.

D. Alter your Perspective

Greene states that there are common shorthands and patterns that can befall someone into a conventional mind. Here are the negative patterns that can be subverted.

Looking at the "What" instead of the "How"

How to subvert: To look at the how instead of the what focuses on the structure, how the parts relate to the whole. Greene (2012) states that," Everything in nature has as a structure, a way that the parts relate to one another, which is generally fluid and not so easy to conceptualize. Our minds naturally tend to separate things out, to think in terms of nouns instead of verbs. In general you want to pay greater attention to the relationship between things, because that will give you a great feel for the picture as a whole." (Greene, 2012,p.191).

Rushing to generalities and ignoring details

How to subvert: Greene (2012) states to combat rushing to generalities and ignoring details, "we must sometimes shift our focus from the macro to the micro-placing much greater emphasis on the details, the small picture" (Greene,2012,p.191).

Confirming paradigms and ignoring anomalies

How to subvert: Greene( 2012) states in relation to how to break out of paradigmatic thinking, "Anomalies themselves contain the richest information. They often reveal to us the flaws in our paradigms and open up new ways of looking at the world. You must turn yourself into a detective, deliberately uncovering and looking at the very anomalies that people tend to disregard" (Greene, 2012,p.192)

Fixating on what is present, ignoring what is absent

How to subvert: Paying attention to Negative Cues or things what should have happened but did not.

Greene (2012) states that freeing up your mental state should also include an emotional loosening as well, "If you see setbacks as opportunities, you are more likely to make that a reality" (Greene,2012,p.195).

E. Revert to Primal Forms of Intelligence

Greene (2012) states that, "Stimulating your brain and sense from all directions will help unlock your natural creativity and help revive your original mind" (Greene,2012,p.198).

Greene (2012) suggests that ,"the use of images to make sense of the world is perhaps our most primitive form of intelligence, and can help us conjure up ideas that we can later verbalize" (Greene,2012,p.197).

Theory of Synesthesia - moments in which stimulation of one sense provokes another. Speculation that synesthesia represents a high degree of interconnectivity in the brain.

Step Three: The Creative Breakthrough - Tension and Insight

An overview of the need for tension and letting go within the single minded devotion to your work, the creative block and the release value of stepping away or engaging in another activity or study entirely to allow for the unconscious groundswell of ideas to come pouring back in.

Greene suggests manufacturing deadlines for yourself as a challenge to promote healthy tension.

Emotional Pitfalls

In this section, Greene lists the six most common emotional pitfalls one can fall into when the work becomes scrutinized.

Complacency

Greene suggests in order to battle complacency, constantly remind yourself of how little you truly know, and of how mysterious the world remains.

Conservatism

When attention or success is gained, Greene suggests that in order to battle the notion to continue utilizing a similar strategy, to make creativity rather than comfort your goal.

Dependency

Developing a high degree of independence and internal standards by having the capacity to see your own work with some distance, you can distinguish what is worth paying attention to and what you should ignore.

Impatience

To battle impatience, an individual should cultivate a kind of pleasure in pain, to enjoy the rigorous practice, pushing past your limits, etc.

Grandiosity

To battle grandiosity, there is always greater geniuses out there than yourself. What must ultimately motivate you is the work itself and the process.

Inflexibility

To battle inflexibility, you must be able to not get hung up on a single frame of mind, and be able to soldier through periods of doubt and optimism. The goal is to strike a balance in being able to bend to the moment and adopt the attitude appropriate to the moment.

Strategies for The Creative Active Phase

I. The Authetic Voice (John Coltrane)

Coltrane's apprenticeship phase included studying all different styles and forms of music, (learning structures, developing techniques, and absorbing styles)as well as playing with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Once mastered, he combined his interdisciplinary approach to create music tailored to his own creative expression (Greene, 2012).

Coltrane for years struggled to articulate the emotional and spiritual nature of his jazz improvisations, until he broke out to for his own quartet in 1959 (Greene, 2012).

Greene states that, " The best route is to follow Coltrane and arming for it's own sake" (Greene, 2012, p. 7).

II. The Fact of Great Yield (V.S Ramachandran)

V.S Ramachandran discovered how to alleviate phantom limb pain by testing to see in his mirror experiment that the mere sight of a superimposed limb could retrain the brain to not feel the sudden surge of phantom limb pain (Greene, 2012).

The Great Yield

Greene explains, "a bit of empirical evidence that is strange and does not fit the paradigm, and yet is intriguing" (Greene, 2012, p. 213)

"Although you are beginning within a particular field that you understand deeply, you must not allow your mind to become tethered to this discipline. Instead you must read journals and books from all different fields. Sometimes you will find an interesting anomaly in a unrelated discipline that may have implications for your own" (Greene, ,2012, p. 213)

"You are the supreme hunter, ever alert, eyes scanning the landscape for the fact that will expose a once-hidden reality, with profound consequences" (Greene, 2012, p. 214).

III. Mechanical Intelligence (Wright Brothers)

Wilbur and Orville Wright we're extremely interested in deconstructing mechanical toys from childhood, and learned a tremendous amount from design bicycles for a living (Greene, 2012). The result of was a well developed mechanical intelligence, or the intention to test out whatever they were creating or designing, to see and feel the flaws in the design (Greene, 2012).

Greene states, "In the end you will win through superior craftsmanship, not marketing" (Greene, 2012, p. 218).

IV. Natural Powers (Santiago Calatrava)

Santiago Calatrava was an architect that had specialized in civil engineering to understand the limits of what was possible in designing buildings and structures (Greene 2012).

He specialized in freehand sketches of buildings that would inspire loose, free associative connections that would he impose his disciplined engineering knowledge base as the drawings progressed (Greene 2012).

Greene explains that, " First, it is essential to build into the creative process an initial period that is open-ended,ourself time to dream and wander, to start out in a loose and unfocused manner. In this period, you allow the project to associate itself with certain powerful emotions, ones that naturally comes out of you as you focus on your ideas" (Greene, 2012, p. 222).

"Second, it is best to have wide knowledge of your field and other fields, giving your brain more possible associations and connections" (Greene, 2012, p.222).

"Third, to keep this process alive, you must never settle into complacency, as your initial vision represents the endpoint. You must cultivate profound dissatisfaction with your work and the need to constantly improve your ideas, along with a sense of uncertainty- you are not exactly sure where to go next, and this uncertainty drives the creative urge and keeps it fresh" (Greene, 2012, p. 222).

"Finally, you must come to embrace slowness as a virtue in itself." (Greene, 2012, p. 222).

V. The Open Field (Martha Graham)

Martha Graham, dance choreographer, creator of "modern dance".

Sense the possibility of a new language or way of doing things, you must make the conscious decision to play against the very conventions that you find dead and want to get rid of" (Greene, 2012, p. 227).

VI. The High End (Yoky Matsuoka)

Yoky Matsuoka, robotics designer and engineer. Created the standard for robotic hands.

Technical Lock

In order to learn a subject or skill , particularly one that is complex, we must immerse ourselves in many details, techniques, and procedures that are standard for solving problems. We are not careful, however, we become locked into seeing every problem in the way, using the same techniques and strategies that became so imprinted in us." ( Greene, 2012, p. 229).

"Your project or the problem you are solving should always be connected to something larger-- a bigger question, overarching ideas, an inspiring goal" (Greene, 2012, p.230).

VII. The Evolutionary Hijack (Paul Graham)

Paul Graham, Founder of Y combinator and via web.

Evolutionary Hijacking

"In evolution, accidents and contingencies play an enormous role" (Greene, 2012, p. 235).

"Accidental encounters that spark interesting associations and ideas in us" (Greene, 2012, p. 235).

"The difference is then not in some initial creative power of the brain, but in how we look at the world and the fluidity with which we can reframe what we see" (Greene, 2012, p. 235).

VIII. Dimensional Thinking (Dr. Thomas Young and Jean-Francois Champollion)

Both Dr. Thomas Young and Jean-Francois Champollion attempted to translate hieroglyphics into a discernible language. Thomas Young's approach was mathematically inclined, assuming that they were idiomatic expressions. Champollion employed his interdisciplinary , hollistic approach from years of appreciateships in dead languages, as he explored semiotic links in translation.

IX. Alchemical Creativity and the Unconscious (Teresita Fernandez)

Teresita Fernandez utilized the conceit of alchemy as a way to express her love of minimalistic approaches with overtones of romanticism. These installations resulted in uses of textered lenses and reflective materials that bring are expressed in terms of opposites (Greene, 2012).

Your task as a creative thinker is to actively explore the unconscious and contradictory parts of your personality, and to examine similar contradictions and tensions in the world at large"(Greene, 2012, 0. 243).

Reversal

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Mastery Week 2: Go To Live Session Notes

Overview of assignments for this week

Week 2 Discussion Board:

Cite three concepts this week that reflect on the video. Watch what he discuss in the video, and compare them. Also, describe how these concepts in can inspire you on your master journey.

Follow up post: Specifically reference something

Master Journey (Tumblr): Click the link from the assignment. Some issues that click install, it doesn't install the theme, it installs the default theme. QA it by checking it on a different browser, and make sure the theme is properly installed. All you have to do is send Professor Miles the link.

Tracking Form: Tumblr account tracks your degree throughout your program.

Part I: Complete your about tab, with an introduction to who you are, degree program, and your points of view.

Lynda has an "up and running with Tumblr" section to onboard you.

Part II: Outline your intention for your master journey over the next twelve months and beyond,, at least 300 words.

Part III: Do an inspiration post to your homepage each week. (It can be a photo, quote,poem,video,music).

APA Paper:

You must submit in to turnitin.com.

***When you upload to paper to turnitin.com, you only get one upload. Upload to platform first, then turnitin***

***DO NOT COPY AND PASTE PAPER TO TURNITIN, IT WILL ERASE THE FORMATTING***

A hero that you admire in your field 3-5 pages maximum.

Utilize the grading rubric.

APA Abstract - You do not have to do an abstract for a 3-5 page paper.

1st paragraph (intro) of your paper should briefly summarize what the paper is about. (I will discuss)

Conclusion - I discussed, a restatement of the introduction.

***Write your paper in the order of the rubric***

Background of hero - A paragraph maximum.

Key insights - Define greene's definition of each component, and discuss how your hero 1 to 1.

Creative Active Phase - Compare one the the nine people's mastery to your hero's master journey.

Sources - Two can come from full sail library, (Mastery),

APA FORMATTING

Running head title goes up to 50 characters including spaces.

Two sources per paragraph, mix up your sources for in text citation.

In text Citations

Book - (Author's last name, year published).

Directly quoting from a book

(Author's last name, year published, page number)

Website

(Author's last name, year published)

If not author, then the web address up to the .com

(msn.com,2017).

If directly quoting from a website

(Author's Last name, Paragraph #).

(Pritchard, ¶5)

Directly quoting from a book

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Mastery Go Live Session: Week 3

Mastery Chapter IV: Strategies for Acquiring Social Intelligence

Social Intelligence, comes from ridding of naivety.

It helps learn in how to deal with difficult people.

Specific Knowledge: Knowing how to read someone.

General Knowledge: People knowledge.

The Seven Deadly Realities inhibiting social intelligence.

1. Envy - Can hinder work and progress at work, cannot let envy consume you or take it out on colleagues.

2. Conformism - You don't want to bulldoze, steamroll people in a new work situation or just be complacent. Need to understand the culture first.

3. Rigidity - Open to new ideas, and flexible to ideas.

4. Self Obsessiveness - Oneupsmanship.

5. Lazy Tendencies -

6. Flightyness - Not dependable behavior, inconsistent.

7. Passive Aggressive - Fear of direct confrontation, back channeling.

Strategies for Acquiring

1. Speak through your work

2. Craft the perfect person

4. Suffer fools gladly

Assignments

1. Discussion Board Post (Due Wed)

Follow the prompts, 3 to 4 paragraphs total.

When explaining

2. Reply Post

Reply to one student's post of citing an industry organization or publication that would help them, with link provided.

3. Mastery Journal

A. Build a social bookmarking site with things that will help you in the future.

B. Screenshot papacy account command shift 3, post in tumblr that it's your papacy account.

C. Feedly - Gives RSS feeds to sources to relevant industry blogs. Screenshot feedly blog add to Tumblr.

D. Create a logo for your tumblr, post that on your journal.

F. Post Linked in profile on tumblr.

E. Write an inspiration with a rational or explanation to why something inspires you.

4. Mastery Journey Brainstorming and Research Framework Sheet

A. Three Thrends that could shape your industry of choice:

B. Three current companies.

C. Three current Leaders

D. Three Technical Requirements for your field

E. Three possible paths of training/education to gain entrance into your industry.

G . Three possible mentors - Fullsail Hall of fame, with their contact info.

H. Internships or apprenticeships -

I. Evaluate online course catalog and reflect how it will enhance your mastery journey. (All 12 courses)

J. Outline a personal SWOT analysis or your current readiness in your chosen field and provide at least three

K. Reference List in APA style last page of all research reflected on above.

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MASTERY: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP (Notes for Week 3)

MASTERY, by Robert Greene

Chapter IV: See People as They Are: Social Intelligence (p.125-167)

Thinking Inside (p. 127-133)

Benjamin Franklin's life story having been naive and tone deaf to other people's emotions and movitivations, he began to commit himself to "thinking inside" and deliberately about the intentions of other people while finding ways to advance his agenda without becoming emotionally involved. In this process, he adopted a philosophy of radical human acceptance, so as to observe and accumulate knowledge on human nature to get a better read on situations that he finds himself in. Additionally, in resaearch people who are less inclined to him or in trying to curry favor with the French Gov't, he immersed himself as he had as a young man in creating the satirical character, to allow for the critical distance he needed to observe the behavior, and intgriate himself to the other side.

Keys to Mastery (p. 133-146)

Naive Perspective - The many years of viewing people through the lens of our emotional needs turns into a habit that we can hardly control. (P. 134)

Social intelligence is nothing more than the process of discarding the naive perspective and approaching something more realistic. It involves focusing our attention outward instead of inward, honing the observation and empathic skills that we naturally possess. It means moving past our tendency to idealize and demonize people, and seeing and accepting them as they are. It is a way of thinking that must be cultivated as early as possible, during the Apprenticeship phase. (P. 135)

Following Franklin's example, you can reach this awareness by reviewing your past, paying particular attention to any battles, mistakes, tensions, or dissapointments on the social front. If you look at these events through the Lens of the Naive Perspective, you will focus only on what other people have done to you- the mistreatments you endured from them, the slights or injuries you felt. Instead, you must turn this around and begin with yourself, how you saw in others qualities they did not possess, or how you ignored signs of a dark side to their nature. In doing this, you will be able to clearly see the discrepancy between your illusion about who they are lily, and the role you played in creating this discrepancy.

In light of the new awareness of your naivety, you should overreact and become cynical of other people. The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. You are an observer of the human comedy, and by being as tolerant as possible, you gain a much greater ability to understand people and to influence their behavior when necessary. You cannot change such people at their core, but must merely avoid becoming their victim.

Knowledge of human nature - The ability to read people, to get a feel for how they see the world, and to understand their individuality.

General Knowledge of human nature -Accumulating an understanding of the overall patterns of human behavior that transcend us as individuals, including some of the darker qualities we often disregard.

Specific Knowledge - Reading People

When we are not inward-directed but attending more deeply to another person, we gain accesss to forms of communication that are largely nonverbal in nature, and quite effective in their own way.

Train yourself to pay less attention to the words that people say and greater attention to their tone of voice, the look in their eye, their body language, s that might reveal a nervousness or excitement that is not expressed verbally. Paying dep attention, you will pick up cues from them that will register with you as feelings or sensations.

Resist the temptation to interpret what they say or do as someone implicitly involving you - this will cause you to turn your thoughts inward and close off the immediacy of the connection.

As an exercise, after you have known people for a while, try to imagine that you are experiencing the world from their point of view, placing yourself in their circumstances and feeling what they feel. Look for any common emotional experiences. Reliving a part of that emotion can help you begin identifying process. The goal is not to literally inhabit their mind, which is impossible, but to practice your empathic powers and gain a more realistic appraisal of their worldview. Being able to place yourself to any degree in the mind-set of others is a brilliant means of loosening up your own thought process, which will tend to get locked into certain ways of seeing things. Your ability to empathize with others is related to he creative process of feeling your way into the subject you are studying. (COMPASSION TRAINING VOX).

You should take special note of how people respond to stressful situations= often the mask they wear in public falls off in the heat of the moment. Any kind of extreme behavior, be wary of as they are distractions to throw people off.

General Knowledge - The Seven Deadly Realities

The Seven Deadly Realities - Throughout recorded history we can detect patterns of human behavior that transcend culture and time, indicating certain universal features that belong to us as a species. Most of us have these negative qualities:

Envy: It is our constant nature to compare ourselves to others - in terms of money, looks, coolness, intelligence, popularity, or any number of categories. People who praise you too much or who become overly friendly in the first stages of knowing you are often envious and are getting closer in order to hurt you. You should be wary of such behavior.

Mastery Strategy: It is wise to reveal inconsistencies in your work, flaws, and interest in the other person's work or turn to them for advice. Self deprecation works well.

Conformism: When people form groups of any type, a kind of organizational mind-set inevitably sets in. Although members of the group might trumpet their tolerance and celebration of people's differences, the reality is that those who are Marley different make them feel uncomfortable and insecure, calling the values of the dominant culture into question. Observe the tendencies of the group sprint to engender the same political and social views, while seeing the need to display certain opinions or ideas that conform to the standards. There will always be a few within the group who are the overseers of correctness and who can be quite dangerous

Mastery Strategy: Let your work subtly demonstrate your individual spirit, but when it comes to matters of politics, moral, and values, make a show of adhering to the accepted standards of your environment. Think of the workplace as a kind of theater in which you are always wearing a mask. Be careful in what you say-it is not worth the bother of freely expressing your opinions.

Rigidity: The world has become increasingly complex in many ways, whenever we humans face a situation that seems complicated our response is to resort to a kind of artificial simplicity, to creat habits and routines that give us a sense of control.

Mastery Strategy: The best strategy is to simply accept rigidity in others, outwardly displaying deference to their need for order. On your own, however, you must work to maintain your open spirit, letting go of bad habits and deliberately cultivating new ideas.

Self- Obessiveness: In the work environment, we almost inevitably think first and foremost of ourselves. People can comport themselves as moral, saintly, and willing to help others, do not trust this disguise.

Mastery Strategy: When it is time to ask for a favor or help, you must think first of appealing to people's self interest in some way. This should be applied to everyone. You must give them something valuable in exchange for helping you as they see the world, transactionally. In general, find the way to make conversations revolve around them and their interests.

Laziness: We all have the tendency to want to take the quickest, easiest path to our goals, but we generally manage to control our impatience; we understand the superior value of getting what we want through hard work.

Mastery Strategy: The best strategy is prudence, to keep your ideas to yourself, or conceal enough of the details so that it is not possible to steal them. If people wanto you to do work for them, then pass it off as a "collaborative" effort, always gauge whether such work will add to your skill base, and examine their past record to measure the intensity of their work ethic.

Flightiness: We like to make a show of how much our decisions are based on rational considerations, but the truth is that we are largely governed by our emotions, which continually color our perceptions.

Mastery Strategy: It is best to cultivate distance and a degree of detachment from other people's shifting emotions so that you are not caught up in the process. Focus on their actions, which are generally more consistent, and not their words.

Passive Aggression: 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.

Mastery Strategy: Avoid the personality all together. Focus on only their actions and you will have a clearer picture. You have one of the two options: Get out of their way and leave their presence, or return the attack with something equally indirect, signaling in some subtle way that messing with you will come with a price.

Summary: To develop your intellectual powers at the expense of the social is to retard your own progress to mastery.

Strategies for Acquiring Social Intelligence (p. 145-164)

I. Speak through your Work

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 flow, you show your care for the audience or public at large. By involving other people in your projects and gracefully affecting their feedback, you reveal your comfort with the group dynamic. Work that is solid also protects you from the political conniving and malevolence of others, it is hard to argue with the results you produce.

II. Craft the appropriate persona

People will tend to judge you based on your outward appearance. If you are not careful and simply assume that it is best to be yourself, they will be to ascribe to you all kinds of qualities that have little to do with who you are but correspond to what they want to see. In general, you never settle on one image or give people the power to completely figure you out. You are always one step ahead of the public.

III. See yourself as other see you

To have the power to see ourselves through the eyes of others would be of immense benefit to our social intelligence. We could begin to correct the flaws that offend, to see the role that we play in creating any kind of negative dynamic, and to have a more realistic assessment of who we are.

IV. Suffer fools gladly

If fools are causing you trouble, you must neutralize the harm they do by keeping a steady eye on your goals and what is important, and ignoring them if you can. The height of wisdom, however, is to take this even further and to actually exploit their foolishness, using them for matierla for your work, as examples of things to avoid, or by looking for ways to turn their actions to your advantage.

Tom Kelley (Do What you Love)

- Do what you love. You'll be better at it.

3 circles - Venn Diagram

1. What are you good at?

The curse of competence could hinder you.

2. Born to do?

When are you the happiest, state of flow.

3. What will people pay you to do?

(WHO) Is the outside, if you work with people you hate, you're not going to be a happy camper.

Think about the intersection.

When do you feel the happiest?

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MASTERY: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP (Notes for Week 4)

MASTERY, by Robert Greene

Chapter VI: Fuse The Intuitive with The Rational: Mastery (p.247-309)

The Third Transformation (p. 249 - 254)

Story of Marcel Proust

- Near death at childbirth, frequently ill. Nearly died at nine years old after asthma attack (P. 249))

- Proust suffered a series of failures trying to write a entomological novel on French society. Throughout his years of failures and apprenticeships, he finally decided to utilize his intern disciplinary knowledge of psychology, art, etc to compose a true to life semi-autobiographical novel.

"All of his failures had a purpose, he decided, if he knew how to exploit them. His time had not been wasted" (Greene, 2012, p. 253).

Keys to Mastery (p. 255 - 269)

On Intuition/fingertip feel (P. 255)

Def: "In all of these instances, these practitioners of various skills described a sensation of seeing more, They were suddenly able to grasp an entire situation through an image or an idea, or a combination of images and ideas. They experienced this power as intuition, or a fingertip feel" ( Greene, 2012, p. 255).

High Level Intuition - The ultimate sign of mastery, is essentially an ability not derived from rational thought processes. It is a composite of human emotional experience, the environmental response, and the unexpected relationship formed from the intersection of both.

Dynamic - " the living force that inevitably operates in anything we study or do. It is how the whole thing functions, and how the relationships evolve from within" (Greene, 2012, p. 256).

Intuitive feel for the whole - "Through intense absorption over a long period of time, Masters come to understand all of the parts involved in what they are studying. They reach a point where all of this has become internalized and they are no longer seeing the parts, but gain an intuitive feel for the whole" ( Greene, 2012, p. 257).

RE: The Intuitive feel "They literally see or sense the dynamic" (Greene, 2012, p. 257).

"Since it has been shown that the brain is literally altered after approximately 10,000 hours of practice, these powers would be the result of a transformation that happens in the brain after some 20,000 hours and beyond" (Greene, 2012, p. 258).

"The reasoning of Masters is guided by intuition; their intuition springs from intense raltional focus. The two are fused" (Greene, 2012, p. 259).

"The key, then. To attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information- we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practice use" (Greene, 2012, p. 259).

" If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not quickly forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes" (Greene, 2012, p. 259).

"You must see every setback, failure or hardship as a trial along the way, as seeds that are being planted for further cultivation, if you know how to grow them" (Greene, 2012, p. 260).

"Never lose your connection to your Life's Task, you will unconsciously hit upon the right choices in your life. Over time, mastery will come to you" (Greene, 2012, p. 260).

The Roots of Masterly Intuition

"Intuition, primitive or high level, is essentially driven by memory. When we take in information of any kind, we store it in mnemonic networks in the brain" (Greene, 2012, p.262).

Psychologist Kenneth Bowers Model - Whenever we encounter a problem - a face we need to recognize, a word or phrase we need to recall - mnemonic networks within the brain become activated as the search for answers are guided along certain pathways" (Greene, 2012, p. 263).

Trauma as an agent for mastery? Greene mentions science and warfare in reference to mastery constantly, and that mnemonic networks are activated when we are corned in a situation that demands our attention (i.e survival, etc).

Managing anxiety and self control are essential in mastery, as well as cultivating a greater memory capacity (P. 264).

The Return to Reality

Ultimate Reality - The interelationship of all evolutionary forms of life.

We see intersectionality in specialized disciplines that are seeking to connect to others in explaining phenmomena.

"We embrace the natural complexity of life, making the brain expand to the dimensions of reality returning to a sense of shrinking it to the narrowest of specializations. This is the inevitable outcome of deep immersion in a field. We can define intelligence as moving toward thinking that is more contextual, more sensitive to the relationships between things" (Greene, 2012, p. 268).

Strategies for Attaining Mastery (P. 269-308)

Mastery (def.) - The function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge. (P. 269)

The X-Factor (For Masters) - Described as the moment they decide to forge their own path undergirded by a strong sense of self confidence and awareness.

Connect to your environment - Primal Powers

"Understand: the ability to connect deeply to your environment is the most primal and in many ways the most powerful form of mastery the brain can bring us" (Greene, 2012, p. 272).

"Over the years, as we progress this path, we begin to merge our knowledge of these various components into an overall feel for the environment itself. Instead of exerting and overtaxing ourselves to keep up with a complex, changing environment, we know it from the inside and can sense the changes before they happen" (Greene, 2012, p. 272).

" You must see your environment as a physical entity and your connection to it as visceral. f there is any instrument you must fall in love with and fetishize, it is the human brain" (Greene, 2012, p. 272).

To become such sensitive observers, we must not succumb to all of the distractions afforded to us by technology, we must be a little primitive" (Greene, 2012, p. 272).

2. Play to your strengths- Supreme Focus

Story of Albert Einstein

As Einstein reflected on the light bearing ether of Maxwell's theory electomagnetism, he realized that he would have to forge his own path since he felt he was not an experimental scientist. (P. 275).

Since he wasn't tied to any school of thought, he could challenge conventional thinking (p. 275).

"His way was remarkably concrete-almost always in terms of images that related to the everyday objects around him, such as trains, clocks, and elevators" (Greene, 2012, p. 278).

"Knowing your strengths, you can lean on them with the utmost intensity. Once you start in this direction, you will gain momentum" (Greene, 2012, p. 279).

Story of Temple Grandin

"Working in a field where she could use her natural empathy and her particular way of thinking to great effect, she was able to delve deeper and deeper into her chosen subject, arriving at a power inside sense of the world of animals. Once she had mastery in this realm, she was able to apply her skills to her other great interest-autism." (Greene, 2012, p. 284).

"Empathy plays an enormous role in learning and knowledge" (Greene, 2012, p. 284).

"Mastery is like swimming, it is to difficult to move forward when we are creating our own resistance or swimming against the current. Know your strengths and move with them" (Greene, 2012, p. 284).

3. Transform yourself through practice - The Fingertip Feel

Story of Caesar Rodriguez (US Air Force)

Upon entering the pilot training program for the US Airforce, Rodriguez spent hours practicing flying in a flight simulator. Repetition and intense focus were embedded in the regime.

"If we take our practice far enough the skill becomes automatic, and we have the sensation that the mind and the body are operating as one" (Greene, 2012, p. 288).

4. Internalize the details - The Life Force

Story of Leonardo da Vinci

"Part of his (da Vinci's) philosophy was that life is defined by continual movement and constant change" (Greene, 2012, p. 290).

"You must see whatever you produce as something that has a life and presence of its own. This presence can be vibrant and vie real, or it can be weak and lifeless" (Greene, 2012, p. 292).

"Seeing your work as something alive, your path to mastery is to study and absorb these details in a universal fashion, to the point at which you feel the life force and can express it effortlessly in your work" ( Greene, 2012, p. 292).

5. Widen your vision, the Global Perspsective

Story of Freddie Roach

"In any competitive environment in which there are winners or losers, the person who has the wider, more global perspective will inevitably prevail. The reason is simple: such a person will be able to think beyond the moment and control the overall dynamic through careful strategizing" (Greene, 2012, p. 296).

"Moving toward mastery will natural bring you a more global outlook, but it is always wise to expedite the process by training yourself early on to continually enlarge your perspective. You can do so by always reminding yourself of the overall purpose of the work you are presently engaged in and how this meshes with your longterm goals" (Greene, 2012, p. 296).

6. Submit to the other - The Inside-out Perspective

Story of Daniel Everett

The missionary linguistic translator who attempted to translate the Bible into the Brazilian tribal language of the Piraha. He noticed that only by ingratiating himself into the culture, was he able to finally decode the language.

"The continual exposure to people and by attempting to think inside them we can gain an increasing sense of their perspective, but this requires effort on our part. Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own beliefs and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware, When it comes to studying another culture, it is only through the use of our empathic powers and by participating in their lives that we can be to overcome these natural projections and arrive he reality of their experience. To do so we must overcome our great fear of the Other and the unfamiliar of their ways." (Greene, 2012, p. 302).

7. Synethesize all forms of Knowledge (Universal Man/Woman)

Story of Johann Wolfgangg von Goethe

A writer, poet, scientist and theorist, he would develop intuitive powers by turning away from his first literary success to move to Germany, where he would devote himself to scientific discoveries of evolution theory and comparative anatomy. He returned to writing and became immersed in a host of other interests. He is said to resemble the renaissance ideal of the universal man - A person so steeped in all forms of knowledge that his mind grows closer to the reality of nature itself and seees secrets that are invisible to most people.

"In any way possible, you should strive to be a part of this universalizing process, extending your own knowledge to other branches, further and further out" (Greene, 2012, 308).

Reversal

The reversal of mastery is to deny its existence or its importance, and therefore the need to strive for it in any way.

The False self - The accumulation of all the voices you have internalized from other people - parents and friends who want you to conform to their ideas of what you should be like and what you should do, as well as societal pressures to adhere to certain values that can easily seduce you. It also includes the voice of your own ego, which constantly tries to protect you from unflattering truths. This self talk to you in clear words, and when it comes to mastery, it says things like, ' Mastery is for the geniuses, the exceptionally talented, the freaks of nature. I was simply not born that way'" (Greene, 2012, p. 309).

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Robert Greene: "Mastery" youtube video

The problem, a project something to complete.

- We have to make decisions between a variety of options.

- We have the sensation usually, that we could have chosen a better decision.

What are the blocks that do not allow us to make decisions on broader choices.

What makes someone more creative?

True creativity comes through from a process.

Their inclinations, they must find something personal and be personally engaged.

Masters accumulate creative energy and then release it.

The human brain is a naturally creative instrument.

Creativity is the functioning of awakening and exploiting the natural creative energy we all possess 6:29.

- The human brain's natural state is constant motion and association. 10:55

The Stream of Consciousness

The internet is like a global brain, mimicking connections.

According to Greene, highly creative people have "the knowledge and the experience, plus the mental fluidity which gives them the ability to see more possibilities in the world around them and to maximize, to realize to its fullest, the natural connecting power of the human brain" (Greene. 21:21-21:36)

Carl Jung called this the 'serious play' the combination of the playful exploratory spirit of the child, with the serious tasks and experience of the adult. ( 21:38- 21:51)

Admitting that we don't know or that we were wrong, should be a sign of intelligence, of a questioning nature, of a willingness to reassess our own ideas. (28:37 - 28:46)

Mastery: Personal Development and Leadership

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RANDY PAUSCH - "The Last Lecture" (Week 2 video)

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Mastery Week 2: Go To Live Session Notes

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Mastery Go Live Session: Week 3

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