Mastery
Robert Greene
22 people recommended it in 19 threads, 2012–2025.
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What people on Hacker News said
Reading this book gave me exactly that. A clear, understandable framework that explained the progression from understanding how to do something, to being good at doing something, to being a master.
Mastery provides the historical examples (including incidentally, our hero, Paul Graham), and The Talent Code provides the science behind it, what deep practice does to the brain.
Mastery by Robert Greene -stories about the lives of luminaries such as Henry Ford, Michael Faraday, and Da Vinci on what it takes to be successful.
Mastery (Robert Greene) - can be dismissed as Anecdotes but really powerful ones
Mastery by Robert Greene is one I mentioned in another post. I don't want to say its life changing but its extremely good and it's the closest thing I've found to a self help book that isn't full of fluff.
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