| Mastery, the keys to success and long-term | | | | when after days, weeks or months you're |
| fulfillment is a book written by George Leonard. | | | | banging your head against a wall doing the same |
| One of the main focuses in the book is how as | | | | thing and trying to see success or an |
| we live our life we will face many plateaus as we | | | | improvement. George Leonard makes it clear that |
| try to succeed at new things and that we should | | | | this is something that will happen in almost |
| be persistent if we truly want to master it. | | | | anything we try to improve in during our life that |
| George Leonard is an aikido teacher and true of | | | | is worthwhile. |
| the book you can see a lot of the teachings of | | | | The book gives many examples and ways to |
| his discipline applied for your whole life. In the book | | | | keep us determined and focused on our path |
| he explains five essential keys to eventually | | | | towards mastery. One of the very important |
| master something. | | | | points he makes is that there are three |
| Mastery is a very broad term but in general | | | | personality types that are common amongst us |
| George Leonhard probably means mastery in the | | | | humans that can serve as obstacles to mastery |
| sense of constantly improving a skill in something | | | | which can help identify ourselves to not fall in the |
| whether martial arts, a job, a dance or any other | | | | common problems associated with those |
| particular skills that one of us would find | | | | personalities. The book has many other examples |
| particularly useful or enjoyable to improve. Along | | | | that provide great insight. |
| the path towards constant improvement we will | | | | If you ever felt like quitting while doing something |
| face many plateaus that will probably discourage | | | | in your life that you probably consider important, |
| most people from not only continuing to improve | | | | you probably want to read this book which offers |
| but possibly completely abandoning the whole skill | | | | a lot of insight and is highly recommended. |
| you are trying to gain. What is a plateau? It's | | | | |