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9781644116432

The Art of Mastery

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    9781644116432

  • ISBN10:

    164411643X

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2023-04-18
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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Summary

A detailed guide to what it takes to master anything

• Explores in depth the foundational skills and operating principles that empower mastery, including accurate perceptive awareness and effective interaction

• Looks at how to control your mind and transform your perceptive experience so what you are experiencing aligns with what’s actually occurring

• Presents a step-by-step breakdown of the principle of effective interaction and explains how to overcome the major obstacles to mastery

Becoming a master in a particular area is not tied solely to innate ability or talent nor to years of rote practice. As martial arts master and consciousness explorer Peter Ralston explains, the secret to mastery lies in accurate perceptive-awareness and effective interaction.

In this detailed guide to what it takes to master something, Ralston examines the powerful dynamics behind the art of mastery. He explores the foundational skills and operating principles that empower mastery, including the principle of effective interaction, the mind-body alignment principle, and creative intelligence. Examining “reaction” versus “response,” he looks at how to control your mind and transform your perceptive- awareness so that what you are experiencing aligns with what’s actually occurring—the first step toward reaching your objectives. Sharing methods to overcome the major obstacles to mastery, he presents a step-by-step breakdown of the principle of effective interaction and explains how to adapt when the people or objects you’re interacting with are working contrary to your goals, including in sports, business, warfare, politics, or any arena in which you’ve committed to pursuing mastery.

Revealing the elements that lead to masterful interactive skills, this guide shows how to do the work of personal transformation necessary to access mastery as a real, functional experience, providing an opportunity for deeper insights into yourself and life.

Author Biography

Peter Ralston is a founder of the consciousness movement and the creator of the Art of Effortless Power, an internal martial art based on effortlessly effective interaction. Born in San Francisco but raised primarily in Asia, he began studying martial arts at the age of 9 in Singapore. By the age of 28 he had black belts or expertise in almost every martial art there is and was developing his own Art of Effortless Power. In 1978 he became the first non-Asian ever to win the World Championship full-contact martial arts tournament held in the Republic of China. He is the founder of The Cheng Hsin Center outside of San Antonio, Texas. The author of several books, including The Book of Not Knowing, he lives in Pipe Creek, Texas.

Table of Contents

On the Opportunity of Mastery

Chapter One
Committing to the Pursuit of Mastery

Chapter Two
Mastery—The Short Version A Brief Overview

MASTERY
The Principles of Skill and Effective Interaction
The Long Version

Chapter Three
On the Nature of Mastery
What Is Mastery?
Why Should You Pursue Mastery?
Knowledge Useful for Mastery


Chapter Four
The Principle of Effective Interaction

Isolating the Principle of Effective Interaction
Dissecting the Principle of Effective Interaction
Tailoring Your Actions to Your Objective


Chapter Five
Transforming Your Perceptive-Experience
Making Distinctions
Objective Distinctions
Non-Objective Distinctions
Seven Non-Objective Components
Feeling Translation
Reaction versus Response
Rethinking Relationship
Rethinking Learning


Chapter Six
Principles and States That Empower Mastery A Couple Actions Useful for Effective Interaction A Few Essential Principles

Chapter Seven
Powerful Operating Principles for Mastery
Foundation Skills for Powerful Operating Principles
Powerful Interactive Operating Principles
Even More Advanced Principles
A World of Operating Principles


Conclusion
Cutting Up an Ox

Addendum
The Art of War
By Peter Ralston

Index

About the Author

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