You are in any position where the mechanism of power has influence on your life. If you desire to advance your career, further your standing in a personal relationship, climb the corporate ladder, be an effective leader, or survive and defeat an antagonist, this book is a MUST READ.
You will never forget your first time--This is true of many things. Love, heartbreak, sex, fist-fights… And the first time you read or see Cyrano De Bergerac performed.
I saw this book recommendation from my friend “twitch” on my skype 5 minutes before taking off on a 7 hour flight from Houston to Peru. I downloaded to my Paperwhite, and finished it before we touched down in Lima.
Mastery takes you by the hand on a tour of history, your tour guides being the great masters themselves-- Leonardo Da Vinci, Einstein, Freddie Roach! You learn from their successes and failures and have the blunt and poignant insight by Greene on how to apply them to your own life. If you don't want to read this book for yourself, read it for everyone whose life you will touch. The positive energy of being on your path to mastery is contagious, and for the world to change, we need as many on their way as possible.
Whoa. That's what you find yourself saying as you read this book. The ideas therein completely flip your moral paradigm on its head.
Pressfield is one of the best non-fiction writers I have encountered due to his ability to be extremely terse, well organized, and write as though he is having a conversation with you.
As a writer, I had to see what all the fuss was about. My tipping point was when I was sitting on a plane and EVERY FEMALE in an adjacent row to mine was reading this book.
Pressfield's other non-fiction The War of Art was one of the most influential books in my career.
I used to call this book a "Masterpiece.” But then after spending some time with Dr. Chris Ryan I realized that this book only told a part of the story.
While this book is probably the most topic specific of any of the other highly recommended books, I think the pathways of thinking it opens up extend far beyond the boundaries of a man’s quest for the root of knowledge in the Amazon.
This book, written in the 1950’s was the first mainstream exposure to Zen for a lot of Americans.
