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Mastery Hardcover - 2012
by Greene, Robert
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Details
- Title Mastery
- Author Greene, Robert
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Condition New
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking, U.S.A.
- Date 2012-11-13
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780670024964
- ISBN 9780670024964 / 0670024961
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Success, Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012027195
- Dewey Decimal Code 158
Summary
The eagerly anticipated new book from the author of the bestselling The 48 Laws of Power
What did Charles Darwin, middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were the similar choices made by Mozart and by Caesar Rodriguez, the U.S. Air Force’s last ace fighter pilot? In Mastery, Robert Greene’s fifth book, he mines the biographies of great historical figures for clues about gaining control over our own lives and destinies. Picking up where The 48 Laws of Power left off, Greene culls years of research and original interviews to blend historical anecdote and psychological insight, distilling the universal ingredients of the world’s masters.
Temple Grandin, Martha Graham, Henry Ford, Buckminster Fuller—all have lessons to offer about how the love for doing one thing exceptionally well can lead to mastery. Yet the secret, Greene maintains, is already in our heads. Debunking long-held cultural myths, he demonstrates just how we, as humans, are hardwired for achievement and supremacy. Fans of Greene’s earlier work and Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers will eagerly devour this canny and erudite explanation of just what it takes to be great.
What did Charles Darwin, middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were the similar choices made by Mozart and by Caesar Rodriguez, the U.S. Air Force’s last ace fighter pilot? In Mastery, Robert Greene’s fifth book, he mines the biographies of great historical figures for clues about gaining control over our own lives and destinies. Picking up where The 48 Laws of Power left off, Greene culls years of research and original interviews to blend historical anecdote and psychological insight, distilling the universal ingredients of the world’s masters.
Temple Grandin, Martha Graham, Henry Ford, Buckminster Fuller—all have lessons to offer about how the love for doing one thing exceptionally well can lead to mastery. Yet the secret, Greene maintains, is already in our heads. Debunking long-held cultural myths, he demonstrates just how we, as humans, are hardwired for achievement and supremacy. Fans of Greene’s earlier work and Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers will eagerly devour this canny and erudite explanation of just what it takes to be great.
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- Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/2012, Page 0
- Library Journal, 06/01/2012, Page 79
- Publishers Weekly, 08/20/2012, Page 51
