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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
The Ultimate Power
The Evolution of Mastery
Keys to Mastery
I. Discover Your Calling: The Life’s Task
The Hidden Force
Keys to Mastery
Strategies for Finding Your Life’s Task
1. Return to your origins—The primal inclination strategy
2. Occupy the perfect niche—The Darwinian strategy
3. Avoid the false path—The rebellion strategy
4. Let go of the past—The adaptation strategy
5. Find your way back—The life-or-death strategy
Reversal
II. Submit to Reality: The Ideal Apprenticeship
The First Transformation
Keys to Mastery
The Apprenticeship Phase—The Three Steps or Modes
Step One: Deep Observation—The Passive Mode
Step Two: Skills Acquisition—The Practice Mode
Step Three: Experimentation—The Active Mode
Strategies for Completing the Ideal Apprenticeship
1. Value learning over money
2. Keep expanding your horizons
3. Revert to a feeling of inferiority
4. Trust the process
5. Move toward resistance and pain
6. Apprentice yourself in failure
7. Combine the “how” and the “what”
8. Advance through trial and error
Reversal
III. Absorb the Master’s Power: The Mentor Dynamic
The Alchemy of Knowledge
Keys to Mastery
Strategies for Deepening the Mentor Relationship
1. Choose the mentor according to your needs and inclinations
2. Gaze deep into the mentor’s mirror
3. Transfigure their ideas
4. Create a back-and-forth dynamic
Reversal
IV. See People As They Are: Social Intelligence
Thinking Inside
Keys to Mastery
Specific Knowledge—Reading People
General Knowledge—The Seven Deadly Realities
Envy
Conformism
Rigidity
Self-obsessiveness
Laziness
Flightiness
Passive Aggression
Strategies for Acquiring Social Intelligence
1. Speak through your work
2. Craft the appropriate persona
3. See yourself as others see you
4. Suffer fools gladly
Reversal
V. Awaken the Dimensional Mind: The Creative-Active
The Second Transformation
Keys to Mastery
Step One: The Creative Task
Step Two: Creative Strategies
A. Cultivate Negative Capability
B. Allow for Serendipity
C. Alternate the Mind Through “The Current”
D. Alter Your Perspective
Looking at the “what” instead of the “how”
Rushing to generalities and ignoring details
Confirming paradigms and ignoring anomalies
Fixating on what is present, ignoring what is absent
E. Revert to Primal Forms of Intelligence
Step Three: The Creative Breakthrough—Tension and Insight
Emotional Pitfalls
Complacency
Conservatism
Dependency
Impatience
Grandiosity
Inflexibility
Strategies for the Creative-Active Phase
1. The Authentic Voice
2. The Fact of Great Yield
3. Mechanical Intelligence
4. Natural Powers
5. The Open Field
6. The High End
7. The Evolutionary Hijack
8. Dimensional Thinking
9. Alchemical Creativity and the Unconscious
Reversal
VI. Fuse the Intuitive with the Rational: Mastery
The Third Transformation
Keys to Mastery
The Roots of Masterly Intuition
The Return to Reality
Strategies for Attaining Mastery
1. Connect to your environment—Primal Powers
2. Play to your strengths—Supreme Focus
3. Transform yourself through practice—The Fingertip Feel
4. Internalize the details—The Life Force
5. Widen your vision—The Global Perspective
6. Submit to the other—The Inside-out Perspective
7. Synthesize all forms of knowledge—The Universal Man/Woman
Reversal
Contemporary Master Biographies
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Index
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