by Robert Greene
Greene studies the lives of historical and contemporary masters — Da Vinci, Darwin, Mozart, Coltrane, Temple Grandin — to reverse-engineer the path to mastery. His framework: apprenticeship, creative-active, and mastery phases, each with concrete strategies.
In this collection, Mastery references 5 other books.
It draws on Meditations, Sources of Power and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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Greene lists Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in his Selected Bibliography. The Stoic philosophy of self-discipline and the long apprenticeship of the self runs throughout Greene's apprenticeship phase framework.
Greene lists Gary Klein's Sources of Power as a foundational source for his arguments about masterly intuition. Klein's research on expert firefighters and their rapid pattern-recognition is central to Greene's discussion of how masters develop high-level intuition over years of practice.
Greene lists Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in his bibliography. Kuhn's framework on how new paradigms emerge from anomalies informs Greene's discussion of how masters like Darwin notice what others dismiss.
Greene draws extensively on Walter Isaacson's Leonardo da Vinci biography for the central Da Vinci chapters. Leonardo's self-directed apprenticeship and obsession with observing detail are Greene's archetype of the mastery path.
Isaacson's Einstein: His Life and Universe appears in Greene's bibliography. Einstein's focus on his own strengths and his willingness to hold contradictions together inform Greene's Creative-Active strategies.
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