Review of Mastery - The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard

Mastery, the keys to success and long-termwhen 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 asthing and trying to see success or an
we live our life we will face many plateaus as weimprovement. George Leonard makes it clear that
try to succeed at new things and that we shouldthis 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 ofis worthwhile.
the book you can see a lot of the teachings ofThe book gives many examples and ways to
his discipline applied for your whole life. In the bookkeep us determined and focused on our path
he explains five essential keys to eventuallytowards mastery. One of the very important
master something.points he makes is that there are three
Mastery is a very broad term but in generalpersonality types that are common amongst us
George Leonhard probably means mastery in thehumans that can serve as obstacles to mastery
sense of constantly improving a skill in somethingwhich can help identify ourselves to not fall in the
whether martial arts, a job, a dance or any othercommon problems associated with those
particular skills that one of us would findpersonalities. The book has many other examples
particularly useful or enjoyable to improve. Alongthat provide great insight.
the path towards constant improvement we willIf you ever felt like quitting while doing something
face many plateaus that will probably discouragein your life that you probably consider important,
most people from not only continuing to improveyou probably want to read this book which offers
but possibly completely abandoning the whole skilla lot of insight and is highly recommended.
you are trying to gain. What is a plateau? It's