Mastery (66 page)

Milwaukee Art Museum, 86, 222

mirror experiment, 211–12

mirror neurons, 7–8, 59, 104, 134, 146

missionaries, 71–72, 161, 298

mitt work, 39, 119–20, 294–95

Moby-Dick
(Melville), 179

molecular biology, 197–98

Mona Lisa
(Leonardo), 292–93

money, 42, 65–68

monkeys, 210–11

Montesquiou, Count de, 255

Morris, Robert, 88, 232–34

movement:

in architecture, 84–87, 220

in art, 291–92

Mozart, Anna Maria, 169–73

Mozart, Leopold, 36–37, 38, 169–73

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 10, 15, 274, 171, 172, 175, 182, 279

Creative-Active Phase of, 169–74, 178

genius of, 90, 169–70, 178

parental control of, 169–73

rebellion of, 36–37

second transformation and, 169–75

multitasking, dangers of, 60

Murphy, William H., 82

Naïve Perspective, 135–38

naïveté, 129–31, 165, 202

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 25, 107, 236, 239

NASA, 85, 220

National Public Radio, 162

natural powers, 219–24

natural selection, 188

nature, 21–22, 24, 25, 51, 95–96, 210, 305, 309

navigation, Caroline Islanders’ mastery of, 270–73

Negative Capability, 175, 265

as source of creative power, 182–84

negative cues, 194

neoteny, 74

Netscape, 88, 231–32

neurobiotics, 35, 111

neurons, 60–61

mirror, 7–8, 59

neuroscience, 33, 211–13, 229–30, 268

Newton, Isaac, 187, 274–75

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 17, 304, 311

Norman Conquest, 249, 251

Norris, Isaac, 132–33

observation, 7, 15, 58

as basis for literature, 160, 251, 254–55

in creative thinking, 52, 274

deep, 56–58

of Leonardo, 22–23

of mentors, 106–7

nonjudgmental, 183

opinion vs., 183

of rules and procedures, 57

social, 130–31, 136, 137–40, 152

as step toward mastery, 273

verification of, 188–89

and visual thinking, 198

obsession, in Creative Task, 179–80

obstetrics, 147–49

Oceania, 270

Olympic Sculpture Park, 243–44

open field, as Creative-Active strategy, 224–28

opera, 37, 171–75, 178, 179, 200

Operation Desert Storm, 286–88

optical illusions, 210–11

Original Mind, 175–77

Ortega y Gasset, José, 25

ostinato rigore,
203

Other:

achieving mastery through submission to, 298–304

fear of, 303

Pacquiao, Manny, mentoring of, 120–22, 296

Page, Larry, anomalies recognized by, 193–94

pain, brain in, 212

Pantheon, 85

paradigms:

examining of, 193–94, 245

as impediment to creativity, 227

Paradise Lost
(Milton), 69

parents:

accepting, 65

critical, 38, 49

defying of, 37, 38, 50–51

exploitation by, 36–37, 169–73

guidance from, 54

idealization of, 134–35

influence of, 11, 32, 33, 49–51, 251–52

mentors as reflection of, 107–8, 112

as obstacles, 36–38

Parker, Charlie “Bird,” 31, 206, 208

passion, as element of mastery, 11

passive aggression, as Deadly Reality, 141, 145

passivity:

in observation, 57

pitfalls of, 13–14

Pasteur, Louis, 185

patience, 43, 62, 179, 223, 224

Penfeld, Wilder, 210

penicillin, 185

perdu,
260

periodic table, 197

persistence, 3, 114–15, 121, 123

persona:

as art form, 155

crafting of, 152–56

perspective, altering of, 191–96

Pestalozzi, Johann, 274

phantom limb paralysis, 211–12

phantom limb syndrome, 33, 210–12

Philip II, king of Macedonia, 106

philosopher’s stone, 4

mentors compared to, 104

phonograph, 186

piano, 116

Pierce, William, 266

Pindar, 29

Pirahã, 72–74, 161–63, 298–303

Planck, Max, 189

Pleasures and Days
(Proust), 251–52

poetry, 79–80

Polanyi, Michael, 123

political behavior, politicking, 15, 54–55

avoidance of, 164–65

in court, 23, 159–60

money and, 212

in work environment, 57, 129–30, 135, 152, 156–57

politics:

Franklin’s career in, 132–33

French, 239

Pons, Timothy, 210–11

power:

keys to mastery of, 10–17

mastery as ultimate, 1–17

power relationships, 57

practice, 11, 34, 58–62, 206, 246

achieving mastery through, 285–89, 296–97

as denigrated, 288–89

in intuition, 254

love of, 36, 38, 170–71, 296–97

moving toward resistance and pain in, 78–81

trusting in, 76–78

prehendere,
59

preverbal intelligence, 8, 59, 175, 196, 283

primal inclination strategy, 30–32

primal intelligence, 196–99

primal powers, achieving mastery through, 270–73

primates:

humans vs. other, 6–7, 134

visual development of, 6

printing press, 185, 215

programming, 87–90

prototypes, 190

Proust, Jeanne, 249, 251, 252, 253

Proust, Marcel, 15, 246

apprenticeship of, 253

bisexuality of, 251

charm of, 250

Creative Task of, 180

death of, 255

despair of, 252, 261

evolution to mastery of, 249–55, 260–61

frailty of, 249, 251, 252, 253

Life’s Task of, 250, 253

mastery achieved through time for, 260–61

setbacks for, 252

strangeness of, 250

psychology, 109–10

Ptolemy V, 237, 240

Quadricycle, 81

radioactivity, 193

radium, 30

Ramachandran, V. S., 15, 315

and fact of great yield, 210–14

mentoring of, 110–11

personal niche discovered by, 32–33, 35

strategic experimental guidelines for, 212

Ramses, pharaoh of Egypt, 240

rational thinking:

fusion of intuition and, 247–310

instinct vs., 4

intuition vs., 256–57

reality, return to, 267–69

rebellion strategy, 36–38, 111

rebelliousness, 180

creativity as, 203

recitatives, 174

recursion, 301–2

relativity, theories of, 66, 183, 198, 259, 278–79

religion,
see
Christianity; Sandemanians; Zen Buddhism

Rembrandt, Creative Task of, 180

Renaissance:

apprenticeships in, 88

ideal of, 86, 309

interconnected knowledge in, 268

Resistance Practice, 80–81

Rhode Island School of Design, 88

Riebau, George, 96–97

rigidity, as Deadly Reality, 141, 142–43

risk taking, 83, 109, 181

Roach, Freddie, 15, 315–16

adaptation strategy of, 38–40

apprenticeship of, 67

mastery achieved through widened vision of, 294–98

mentoring of, 119–20

Pacquiao mentored by, 120–21

robotics, 34–36, 111, 228–30

Rodriguez, Cesar, Jr., 16, 316

in air combat, 286–87

Apprenticeship Phase of, 75–78

mastery achieved through practice by, 285–88

Romanticism, 305

Rommel, Erwin, 258–59

Röntgen, Wilhelm, 185

Rosetta stone, 236–41

Royal Institution, 97–100

Royal Society, 98, 101

Ruskin, John, 252–53, 260–61

safety bicycle, 215

St. Denis, Ruth, 224

salons, 250, 252

Salzburg, archbishop of, 172

Sandemanians, 95–96, 105

scale, sense of, 243

Schiller, Friedrich, synesthesia for, 198

Schoenberg, Arnold, 116–17

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 133–34

science, 95–101

creative thinking in, 98, 100, 101

intuition in, 257–58

sculpture, 153–56, 242–45

outdoor, 243

scurvy, 194

search engines, 193–94

seashells, 32

Seattle Cloud Cover
(Fernández), 243–44

seeing more (heightened intelligence), 256–57

in life sciences, 257–58

in warfare, 257–59

self:

authentic voice as expression of, 209

being true to, 22, 24–25, 29, 42, 118–19, 310–11

body image in sense of, 213

creativity and, 179

detached view of, 55, 61, 63, 80, 155, 157–59

false, 310

mastery of, 54

as subject, 254

withholding of, 154–56

self-apprenticeship, 54–56, 66, 71, 89

mentoring vs., 105, 122–23

self-criticism, 61, 80, 81, 199, 297

as motivation, 223

self-discovery, 89

self-observation, 55, 61, 62

self-obsessiveness, as Deadly Reality, 141, 143–44

self-reliance, 123

Semmelweis, Ignaz, poor social intelligence of, 147–49

senses, 198–99

serendipity, 184–87

in the arts, 186

in discoveries, 185–86

serendipity (
cont.
)

notebook for cultivation of, 187–88

two steps to invite, 184–85

Ser Piero da Vinci, 22, 289

Seven Deadly Realities, 141–46