Mastery

“I hate to say it, but this is a chapter I'm writing right now for my book on mastery. I explain how that comes from biology—you are marked as a unique individual at birth; the combination of variants in your chromosomes is mathematically impossible to replicate.”

“I talked in Mastery about Temple Grandin, who was born with severe autism. She was able to find her way to become an incredibly brilliant professor, academic, writer, and expert on animal behavior and autism. She found her way there, even when at three or four years old, she couldn't speak any language and was going to be hospitalized.”

“Today's guest is Robert Greene, the author of The New York Times Best Sellers: The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, The Laws of Human Nature, and most recently, The Daily Laws.”

“Well, to me, it's why I wrote the book Mastery.”

“I read Mastery by Robert Greene; it changed my life. And that’s why I purposely use those words of trade and mastery.”

“Robert Greene is an author who has written more than five bestselling books, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature, and Mastery.”

“I first learned about Robert's work from reading the book Mastery, which to my mind is a brilliant exploration and a practical tool for how to think about and pursue one's purpose.”

“Whenever I'm asked for book suggestions, I always include Mastery in my top three recommendations.”

“And your book, 'Mastery.'”

“The reason I recommended 'Mastery' is because these students were soon going to enter the great jungle of post-undergraduate education.”

“For me, I found 'Mastery' to be an absolutely transformative book in that it taught me so much about how to learn from others and how to expect certain types of interactions when one kind of assigns themselves to a mentor and vice versa.”

“I usually end with a great debt of gratitude, and I'll probably do that again at the end, but I want to start with a great debt of gratitude; 'Mastery' transformed my entire life, and in many ways this podcast probably wouldn't exist were it not for 'Mastery.'”

“In Robert Greene's Mastery, he talks about like your sort of life's task: how do you find what that thing is?”

“he wrote um you know I don't know I think he has five New York time best-selling books um he wrote a book called Mastery”

“Actually, the first time I heard about it was from Robert Greene, who wrote the book Mastery and some important writings; what was it? I think it was the— I forget how many laws of power, but those books, Robert Greene's Mastery is actually a book that I highly recommend people read because it talks about mentorship and finding mentors”

“dude I read that in in Mastery Mastery changed my life I remember like exactly where I was where I read it and I was like oh this this is called apprenticeship”

“Green talks about that in 'Mastery.'”

“so he went and assisted Robert Greene five times New York Times bestselling author mastery 48 laws of power all that stuff and previous modern wisdom guests went and assisted him for free as a research a research assistant”

“I've also had Robert Greene the guy that wrote for yet lost power and mastery and laws of human nature and stuff like that I don't know whether you know this but the reason that Robert Greene made 48 laws of power the way that he did he says that it is a cookbook with ingredients but not a recipe”

“131 03:34 48 laws of power art seduction etc etc 132 03:39 well I can't see it as the culmination sort of the distillation of all that I've learned over excuse-me over 20 years of writing books and doing a lot of consulting work and just sort of observing people 133 03:44 and I wrote a book prior to this”

“so my mentor was this guy Robert Green who wrote the 408 Laws of Power and master he was this great writer”