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3: Timeless Strategies to Achieving Mastery: Mastery by Robert Greene

Made You Think

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The Creative Break Through

In his book art of learning, Josh whiteskin says that at a particular high point of tension, the master lets go for a moment. What almost inevitably happens in such moments is that the perfect idea for completing the work comes to them. After ten long years of incessant thinking on the problem of general relativity, albert einstein decided one evening to simply give up. It was beyond him. He went to bed early, and when he awoke, the solution suddenly came to him. This is just like we were saying with exercise. You think on something really, really hard, you kind of prime your mind, and then you let go. You relax, and it will usually come to

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