Mastery is not a gift handed to the “talented", it’s a ruthless process: time, patience, humility, apprenticeship, and the emotional control to not quit when it gets boring. In this review, I break down Greene’s core ideas, why social intelligence matters as much as skill, and how intuition gets forged through long exposure to the craft.

(00:00) — Go against the tide: develop mastery
(00:11) — Why this book, why now
(00:38) — Context: comparing to 48 Laws of Power
(00:57) — Reading experience: chunky, dense, “Greene” style
(02:42) — Power vs Mastery: maturity and intent
(03:24) — Who this book is (and isn’t) for
(04:32) — The myth of talent: process beats “genius”
(06:16) — Core point: mastery is a process
(07:31) — Time, patience, humility IQ (and people quit early)
(08:17) — Freddie Roach: mastery through endurance
(09:52) — The book’s structure: life task → apprenticeship → mastery
(10:37) — “Life task”: curiosity vs passion
(12:18) — Apprenticeship: long, boring, necessary
(13:50) — Mental dynamic: emotional regulation
(14:24) — Social intelligence: skill alone won’t save you
(15:48) — Dimensional mind: intuition + rational
(18:18) — AI analogy + building a “bigger matrix” of insight
(20:44) — Closing: the six steps and the seduction of mastery

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