Mastery by Robert Greene

Mastery Book by Robert Greene

This is an excellent book with a treasure trove of useful guidance, but the last half of the book dragged a bit causing me to dock one star from the review. Nevertheless, the beginning of the book alone is worth the price of admission.

Greene starts out by tackling a simple, yet often overlooked concept: we each have a "life task" yet many of us deviate from this task because of pressure from family members, concerns about money, etc. We thus jump into a rat race in which we fail to make progress, ultimately finding ourselves in a job we merely tolerate and having given up on our dreams. If you are not excited to get up each morning and go to your job, then this book is for you.

Greene aptly points out that we will spend the lion's share of our waking lives at our job. That being the case, we shouldn't resign ourselves to the notion that our jobs are merely a hassle we endure to get to the weekends. Rather, we should engage in some soul-searching to find our life's task: something we are naturally inclined to do, even if we weren't being paid to do it. We are all unique, so no one can tell you your life's task. In fact, you might not even know what your life's task is, and Greene suggests re-examining activities from your childhood to find something that you never grew tired of doing.

Once you've identified what your life's task is, it's time to go after it. If you say, "Hey, I'm already in a career and have invested all this time" Greene's is that you will never be truly successful and happy by doing something that isn't your life's task. To get ahead in any field requires massive commitments of time and energy, and you seem won't have the motivation for this in the long haul if the path you've chosen isn't your life task. But once you've mustered the courage to go after this life task, Greene suggests you pick an area that roughly corresponds to this interest. This job should be viewed more as a learning experience, and as you come to know the field better you'll identify side-paths that appeal more closely to your particular interests.

After identifying your life task and jumping into a related field, the next step is to find a mentor. A good chunk of the book is dedicated toward finding the right mentor, and the information Greene provides is invaluable. Greene avoids spewing vague platitudes and gives the reader concrete direction about how to obtain a mentor, why a mentor is important, and how to interact with the mentor.

The second half of the book is where I found myself losing interest. Greene is famous for his mini-biographies of historical figures, and in his previous books he does an excellent job weaving these stories seamlessly into his life lessons. This time, however, I felt like I was reading a laundry-list of stories one after the other as I delved into the latter half of the book. I would read several pages about this person and then several pages about that person, and I wasn't quite sure what the key takeaway was. In the previous books each chapter had a clear, succinct point, but as I wound my way toward the end of Mastery I found myself struggling to remain engaged with the material. Perhaps the best way to summarize it is this: if someone were to ask me what I took away from the first half of the book, I could launch into a long, informed discussion of the salient points; but if someone were to ask me what I took away from the second half of the book, I would have to fire up my Kindle and go back to dig up something that wasn't useful enough for me to bother committing it to memory.

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