Mastery (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene Book 1)

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This is one of the more recent additions to my personal Martial Arts library. I really enjoyed reading the insights on offer from someone who is very much a part of the scene in Thailand. The inclusion of interviews with a selection of great fighters is also a nice touch as well. In the book Mastery, Robert Greene examines the lives of exceptional historical figures like Charles Darwin and Leonardo Da Vinci to uncover how they become widely-admired Masters. Using the strategies in this book, you too can become a high achiever and attain mastery in your desired field(s). In this Mastery summary, we’ll briefly outline the key concepts, processes and strategies involved in attaining mastery, fulfillment and success in your life. For the full details, examples and tips, do get a copy of the book, or get a detailed overview with our complete book summary bundle. Introduction: Mastery Impatience: The best way to neutralize our natural impatience is to cultivate a kind of pleasure in pain— like an athlete, you come to enjoy rigorous practice, pushing past your limits, and resisting the easy way out. Complacency: Constantly remind yourself of how little you truly know, and of how mysterious the world remains.

The seven varieties of intelligence: linguistic, musical, logical/mathematical, spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal. The book introduces a large number of Muay Thai techniques. It provided me with a better insight and many new aspects. I came to a better understanding of some techniques and also learned some new techniques. In particular, I liked the total authenticity with famous Thai fighters as presenters.

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Includes interviews with a number of active high level fighters who regularly compete across each of the major stadiums/promotions In our full Mastery summary, we explain the strategies for becoming an ideal apprentice, including: Once you decide on a field, discipline, or skill to master, the best way to make progress fast is to take an internship. Often the greatest obstacle to our pursuit of mastery comes from the emotional drain we experience in dealing with the resistance and manipulations of the people around us. If we are not careful, our minds become absorbed in endless political intrigues and battles. The principal problem we face in the social arena is our naïve tendency to project onto people our emotional needs and desires of the moment. We misread their intentions and react in ways that cause confusion or conflict. Social intelligence is the ability to see people in the most realistic light possible. By moving past our usual self-absorption, we can learn to focus deeply on others, reading their behavior in the moment, seeing what motivates them, and discerning any possible manipulative tendencies. Navigating smoothly the social environment, we have more time and energy to focus on learning and acquiring skills. Success attained without this intelligence is not true mastery, and will not last.” Selig’s three previous books — I Am the Word, The Book of Love and Creation, and The Book of Knowing and Worth — have won a growing following around the world for their depth, intimacy, and psychological insight. Now, Selig embarks upon an extraordinary new trilogy on the “Teachings of Mastery” with his inaugural volume: The Book of Mastery.

Hugely current. It does a great job of discussing the various aspects of Muay Thai in Thailand that seldom get the attention that they deserve. We enter a new field with excitement, but also fear about how much there is to learn ahead of us. The greatest danger here is boredom, impatience, fear, and confusion. Once we stop observing and learning, the process towards mastery comes to a halt. To be psychologically balanced and centered depends heavily on being physically balanced and centered. Ok, there is no getting away from it. I admit it, I am an absolute bookworm! I have been ever since I was a young child. Libraries and book shops are places I love going and spending time in. Just as much as gyms and martial arts dojos. Now that I have written and published my first book on martial arts. As well as currently being in the middle of writing two more. I figured I would share with you my personal list of 7 great Muay Thai books. Craft the appropriate persona: You must see the creation of a persona as a key element in social intelligence, not something evil or demonic. We all wear masks in the social arena, playing different roles to suit the different environments we pass through. You are simply becoming more conscious of the process. Think of it as theater. By creating a persona that is mysterious, intriguing, and masterful, you are playing to the public, giving them something compelling and pleasurable to witness. You are allowing them to project their fantasies onto you, or directing their attention to other theatrical qualities.

I think Christophe is an amazing author and I genuinely love his passion for Muay Thai (and Martial Arts in general). I have read a number of his books over the years and always learn something from each of them. Move toward resistance and pain: Once we get good at part of a skill, we tend to just do that since it’s easy and familiar. We avoid our weaknesses, and that prevents us from learning. Instead, we must follow the “resistance path,” fighting against where we want to go and making it more challenging for ourselves. Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo, asked to be buried in his white belt after death. What an awesome symbol: the ultimate master forever embracing the mark of a beginner. In the end, your goal is to identify and pierce through to what makes people unique, to understand the character and values that lie at their cores. Erich Krauss has delivered yet another excellent, well structured and easily accessible book with Muay Thai Unleashed.The book is very systematic and works from the ground up - beginning with developing the stance, through the fundamental strikes and movements of the art, and then onto more advanced moves and strikes.

Now we come, as come we must in anything of real consequence, to a seeming contradiction, a paradox. Do you have the same books on yours? If you have read any of the ones featured, what do you think of them? Are there any missing from this list that you would recommend for to me? Conservatism: If you gain any kind of attention or success for your work in this phase, you face the great danger of creeping conservatism. Make creativity rather than comfort your goal and you will ensure far more success for the future. Synthesize all forms of knowledge — The Universal Man/Woman: 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. The rich ideas that will come from such a quest will be their own reward. First of all this is not a fighting book with lots of combinations and workouts, rather it is an encyclopedia of everything Muay Thai. Muay Thai techniques are explained well and the photos are very clear.

Chad has done a great job with this book. It is filled with a whole heap of practical information and drills that the reader can incorporate into their own training straight away. Almost without exception, those who are masters are dedicated to the fundamentals of their calling. At the same time, they are the ones most likely to challenge their previous limits.

At a particular high point of tension, they let go for a moment. This could be as simple as stopping work and going to sleep; or it could mean deciding to take a break, or to temporarily work on something else. What almost inevitably happens in such moments is that the solution, the perfect idea for completing the work comes to them. After ten long years of incessant thinking on the problem of general relativity, Albert Einstein decided one evening to simply give up. He had had enough. It was beyond him. He went to bed early, and when he awoke the solution suddenly came to him.” Mastery is the sensation that you’re in full control of yourself, your environment and reality. As a master, you can enjoy both money and fulfillment doing what you naturally love. It’s truly bizarre when you think about it that we will devote ourselves fully to developing our tennis game, but leave something like our relationships largely to chance.Avoid the false path: We’ll all be attracted to fields for the wrong reasons: money, fame, parental influence. We have to rebel against these forces and be honest about what our interests are. The best teachers strive to point out what a student is doing right just as frequently as what they are doing wrong. The idea of a teacher rarely giving praise and teaching through strict criticism is a myth.