Mastery (65 page)

fame, 241, 309

Faraday, Michael, 8, 15, 110, 122, 146, 183, 192, 197, 198, 268, 275

mentoring of, 95–101, 104–8

Faust
(Goethe), 307, 308

Faust legend, 305

feedlot analysis, 281–83

Fernández, Teresita, 16, 313

Creative-Active strategy of, 242–45

interest in alchemy of, 242–43

persona crafted by, 152–56

field theories, 275

film direction, 160–61, 266

fingertip feel, 256, 258, 285–89

Fischer, Bobby, 256, 264

FitzRoy, Robert, 50–51, 53

Fleming, Alexander, 185

flight:

Leonardo’s obsession with, 23, 85, 216

as pioneered by Wright brothers, 216–18

flightiness, 141, 144–45

flight training, 75–78, 285–86

focus, 4–5, 34, 44, 152, 176

achieving mastery through, 274–85

in creative process, 184, 199, 291

on details, 192–93

in early ancestors, 6–7, 9

in practice, 59, 60–61, 80, 81, 122, 169–70

fools, 159–64

Ford, Henry, 15, 195, 197

Apprenticeship Phase of, 81–84

fossils, 52, 53

François I, king of France, 21

Franklin, Benjamin, 15

apprenticeship of, 65–68, 127

evolving social intelligence of, 127–33, 136, 146

as naïve, 129–31, 136

productive old age of, 266–67

Franklin, James, 127–28, 130

Franklin, Josiah, 65

Frazier, Joe, 294

French Revolution, 239, 308

Freud, Sigmund, 109–10

frontal cortex, 60–61

Fuller, Buckminster, 15, 40–43, 190

function, vs. appearance, 84–87

Futch, Eddie, 38–39, 67, 119–20, 294, 297

Galápagos Islands, 53, 187

Galileo, 187

Galois, Evariste, 201

Galton, Francis, 10

Gaudí, 85

general knowledge, 137–38

seven deadly realities of, 141–46

genius, 5, 12, 17, 90, 237, 256

germs, 148, 185, 194

gliders, 216–18

global perspective, 294–98

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1, 15, 29, 165, 198

daemon of, 25, 305–7, 309

exploitation of fools by, 159–60

illnesses of, 305–6, 307

mastery achieved through synthesis of knowledge by, 304–9

as scientist, 307–8

golden boys, 76–77, 288–89

Gould, Glenn, 15, 116–19, 256

Graham, Martha, 15, 30–31

apprenticeship of, 66–67

Creative-Active strategy of, 224–28

Graham, Paul, 15, 164

Apprenticeship Phase of, 87–90

Creative-Active strategy of, 213–35

Grandin, Temple, 16, 314

evolving social intelligence of, 156–59

limitations overcome by, 43–45, 156–58, 284

mastery achieved through focus on strengths by, 280–84

see also
autism

grandiosity, 204

Greek, 236–37

Gregory, Richard, 33, 109–10

Guerrero, Alberto, 116–18

Gutenberg, Johannes, 185

habit, 181, 296

hackers, hacking, 87–89, 232, 234, 235

Hadamard, Jacques, 197

hands:

and brain, 35, 64, 198, 210–11, 219, 230

prosthetic, 230

robotic, 34–35, 228–31

hardwiring:

of brain connections, 211, 264, 301

of skills, 60–61, 77, 209

Harvard University, 41, 87–88, 89, 164, 231–32, 234

Harvey, William, agility of, 149–52

Hayman, Laure, 250

heart function, 149–50

heightened intellect, 256–57

hieroglyphs, 236–42

high end, 228–31

Hill, Virgil, 39

Hillman, James, 45–46

Hobbes, Thomas, 151

Homo erectus,
267

Homo magister,
9

Hook, Sidney, 196

Hopkins, Frederick Gowland, 194

human behavior:

extreme, 139–40

overall patterns of, 137–38, 141–46

human beings:

early evolution of, 5–10

learning in animals vs., 4

as ultimate opportunists, 213–14

Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 308

humility, 102–3, 115, 183

Hurston, Zora Neale, 68–71

Hussein, Saddam, 286

identification, 8

empathy as, 134, 136, 138–39

imagination, 188–89, 195

imitation:

learning through, 59–60, 79

pitfall of, 206, 209, 227

Immediate Experience Principle (IEP), 301–2

impatience, 203–4

Improvement of the Mind
(Watts), 96–97, 104, 107, 122

inclination, 112, 206, 274

in choice of career path, 27–28, 229

as inner calling, 12–14, 29

primal, 30–32

as reflection of uniqueness, 11–12, 25–26

independence, 74, 100–101, 107–8, 117–19

inferiority, sense of, 71–74

inflexibility, 204

In Search of Lost Time
(Proust), 180, 254–55, 260–61

inside-out perspective, 298–304

instinct, 4, 262–63, 273, 288

intelligence:

as heightened in Masters, 256–62

intuition in, 257–58

mechanical, 215–19

primal, 196–99

tactile, 40

internalization, 3, 8, 61, 77, 206

in mastery, 258–60, 264, 288, 289–94

in mentoring, 107–8, 111, 118, 119, 123, 203

Internet, 88–89, 231–35

intuition, 3–4, 8, 54, 199

fusion of rational thinking and, 247–310

high-level, 253, 256–57, 263–64, 266

in warfare, 257–59

see also
Masterly intuition

Islam, 238

James, William, 184–85

jazz, 31, 206–9

jets, 75–77

Johnson, Samuel, 198–99

Jonah’s Gourd Vine
(Hurston), 70

judgment:

avoiding premature, 140

withholding, 182–83

Jung, Carl, mentoring of, 109–10, 112

Karl August, duke of Weimar, 159–60

Keats, John, 15, 79–80, 175, 182, 183

Keimer, Samuel, 128, 131

Keith, William, 128–29, 130

Klein, Johann, 148–49, 151

knowledge, 51, 55, 57–58, 59

alchemy of, 95–101

flexibility of, 178–79

“how” vs. “what” in, 84–87, 191–92

of human nature, 137–46

specialized vs. interconnected, 267–68

synthesizing of, 304–9

Langley, Samuel, 216

language:

nonverbal, 138–39

Pirahã culture and, 72–74, 161–63, 298–304

and reasoning skills, 134, 196

Rosetta stone in decoding of, 236–42

thinking beyond, 196–99

Last Supper, The
(Leonardo), 291

laziness, as Deadly Reality, 141, 144

Leakey, Richard, 5

Le Corbusier, 84–85, 220

Leonardo da Vinci, 8, 10, 54, 85, 86

apprenticeship of, 290

drawing as thinking for, 198, 289

experimentation of, 63

focus on details by, 192–93, 291–93

on impatience, 203–4

inclination of, 26, 28

Life’s Task of, 21–25

mastery achieved through internalization by, 289–93

letting go, in creative process, 200

life force, 289–94

life-or-death strategy, 40–43

Life’s Task, 15, 19–46, 112, 179, 206, 241, 250, 253, 261, 284, 311

light, speed of, 275–78

Lilienthal, Otto, 216, 218

linguistics, 31, 72–74, 162, 196, 298–302

Lisp (computer language), 88, 232

literature, 68–70, 127, 159–60, 186, 305–6

life recreated through, 249–55

Livingston, Jessica, 164

Logos, 268

Love Supreme, A
(Coltrane), 208

luck, 84, 98–99, 104

madness, 245–46

magic, 4–5, 104

magical thinking, 9

Magic Flute, The
(Mozart), 175

Maillart, Robert, 85

Malcomson, Alexander, 83

Marcus Aurelius, 65, 268

masks, social, 29, 139–40, 142, 155–56, 160

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 111, 162, 228, 230

artificial-intelligence lab of, 34

Masterly intuition, 256–67

Masters:

fusion of intuition and rational thinking in, 247–311

heightened intuition of,
see
Masterly intuition

productive old age of, 266–67

X factor of, 269–70

mastery:

through connection to environment, 270–73

following one’s own path in, 22, 24–25, 42

fusion of intuitive and rational in, 247–311

keys to, 10–17, 25–29, 54–64, 102–8, 133, 175–205, 255–69

learning as basic value in, 67–68

profound love for subject of, 31, 169–70

sense of the whole in, 268, 294–96

seven strategies for attaining, 269–311

social class as impediment to, 96–97

time as critical factor in, 259–60, 269

as ultimate power, 1–17

mathematics, 197, 201

Matsuoka, Yoky, 16, 33–36, 111, 228–31, 314–15

Maxwell, James, 268, 275, 277

mechanical intelligence, 215–19

Medici, Lorenzo de’, 23

Melville, Herman, 179

memory, 197, 263–66, 288–89

Mendeleyev, Dmitry, 197

Mentor Dynamic, 103–7, 112

mentoring, mentors, 15, 107, 93–123

back-and-forth dynamic in, 119–22

dependency on, 203

four strategies for, 108–22

independence from, 100–101, 107–8, 117–19

keys to mastery in, 102–8

lack of, 122–23

submission to, 102–3, 108

transfiguring ideas of, 116–19

two-way dynamic in, 103–7, 112

Mephistopheles, 305

Michelangelo, 24

Middle Ages, apprenticeship in, 59, 89

Milan, duke of, 291

Milton, John, 69