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Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment Flashcards

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What are fitness and health related to?

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Everything we do, think, and feel.

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What does “Ultimate Fitness” deal with?

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Living the good life.

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Define mastery.

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The process during which what is at first difficult becomes progressively easier and more pleasurable through practice.

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What is the purpose of the book “Mastery?”

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To describe the path that leads to mastery in all of life and to warn against the prevailing bottom-line mentality that puts quick, easy results ahead of long-term dedication to the journey itself.

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What does the author believe to be the route to success?

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The long-term, essentially goalless process of mastery.

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When does the master’s journey begin?

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Whenever we decide to learn something new.

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What stands in the way of mastery?

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A consumerist, quick-fix society that brings only the illusion of accomplishment, the shadow of satisfaction.

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We’re all born what?

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Geniuses

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Genius will come to naught or swiftly burn out if we don’t choose what?

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The Master’s Journey

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Describe what the mastery curve looks like.

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Learning any new skill involves what?

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Relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it.

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What is required to take the master’s journey?

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Diligent practice, honing of your skills, attaining new levels of competence, and the willingness to spend most of your time on a plateau, to keep practicing even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

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Why does learning take place in spurts and why can’t we make steady upward progress on our way toward mastery?

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Because we have to keep practicing an unfamiliar movement again and again until we get it in the muscle memory or program it into the autopilot.

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What is the “habitual behavior system?”

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The system that involves the reflex circuit in the spinal cord as well as in various parts of the brain to which it is connected. This system makes is possible to do things without having to worry about how to do them.

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What happens when we train our habitual behavior system?

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We allow the cognitive system and effort system to become a subset of the habitual system long enough to modify it which allows these two systems to withdraw.

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When does a learning stage end?

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When the habitual system has been programmed to the new task, and the cognitive and effort systems have withdrawn. This means you can perform the task without making a special effort to think of its separate parts.

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How do you move toward mastery?

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You practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself. Rather than being frustrated while on the plateau, you learn to appreciate and enjoy it just as much as you do the upward surges.

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Describe the characteristics of The Dabbler

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The Dabbler approaches each new sport, career
opportunity, or relationship with enormous enthusiasm but once they hit a plateau they give up and move on the next activity in a vicious cycle of getting nowhere.

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Describe the characteristics of The Obsessive

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The Obsessive is a bottom-line type of person, not
one to settle for second best. He or she knows results are what count, and it doesn’t matter how you get them, just so you get them fast. But once they hit the plateau they begin to falter and place themselves on a roller coaster ride that leads to their downfall. They don’t enjoy being on the plateau and they fight against it, making no progress.

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Describe the characteristics of The Hacker.

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The Hacker has a different attitude. After sort of
getting the hang of a thing, he or she is willing to
stay on the plateau indefinitely. He doesn’t mind
skipping stages essential to the development of mastery if he can just go out and hack around with fellow
hackers. He eventually stalls and makes no progress past a certain point.

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Describe America’s “War Against Mastery.”

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Two generations of Americans have grown up in
the television age, during which consumerism has
achieved unprecedented dominance over our value
system. The idea at the forefront is that our lives by all rights should
consist of one climax after another. Society trains us to take a drug. Of course, it doesn’t work. In the long run it destroys you.

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Why are some led to take drugs?

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Because they have an understandable
impulse to replicate the most visible, most compelling American vision of the good life—an endless series of climactic moments.

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What is our society now organized around?

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An economic
system that seemingly demands a continuing high level of consumer spending.

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What are the chief value-givers in our society today?

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Advertisements and any inducements to spend money.

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What is the clearest statement about what we value?

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What we spend our money on.

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How are most TV shows arranged?

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They all run on the same hyped-up schedule: (1) If
you make smart-assed one-liners for a half hour,
everything will work out fine in time for the closing
commercials. (2) People are quite nasty, don’t work
hard, and get rich quickly. (3) No problem is so serious that it can’t be resolved in the wink of an eye
as soon as the gleaming barrel of a handgun appears.
(4) The weirdest fantasy you can think of can be realized instantly and without effort.

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What is the real “juice” of life found?

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The real
juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

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Describe “the good life” as it relates to mastery.

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If our life is a good one, a life of mastery, most of it will be spent on the plateau. If not, a large part of it may well be spent in restless,
distracted, ultimately self-destructive attempts to escape the plateau.

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Where does the path to mastery exist in time/space?

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Only in the present, in the form of practice.

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Describe the “love of the plateau.

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To love the plateau is
to love the eternal now, to enjoy the inevitable
spurts of progress and the fruits of accomplishment, then serenely to accept the new plateau that
waits just beyond them. To love the plateau is to
love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

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What sets humans apart from all other known forms of life?

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The ability to learn and go on learning prodigiously from birth to death.

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What is the best way to take the journey of mastery?

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Arrange for first-rate instruction.

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What methods are available to evaluate a teacher?

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Look at their lineage and their credentials. Look at their students as their work of art. Focus on the interaction between the teacher and their students.

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What doesn’t work in teaching?

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Scorn, excoriation, and humiliation. Anything that destroys the student’s confidence and self-esteem. Lack of respect.

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What do the best teachers strive to do?

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To point out what the student is doing right at least as frequently as what she or he is doing wrong. An approximate 50-50 ratio between reinforcement and correction, with exceptional enthusiasm on both sides of the equation.

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What are some characteristics of a good teacher?

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Patience and empathy with teaching beginners.

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What happens when you learn too easily?

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You’re tempted not to work hard, not to penetrate to the marrow of a practice.

38
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What should we look for in an instructor?

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One who practices maximum performance and who pays exquisite attention to the slowest student on the mat.

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The word “practice” is best conceived as what?

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As a noun. Not as something you do (verb) but as something you have, something you are.

40
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Practice is what?

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The path upon which you travel. A practice which is done for its own sake and not in order to gain something else.

41
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What is the secret of masters regarding practice?

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They don’t devote themselves to their particular skill just to get better at it. The truth is, they love to practice and because of this they do get better. And then, to compete the circle, the better they get the more they enjoy performing the basic moves over and over again.

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What do masters possess?

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The knowledge and experience, the feel, necessary to appreciate the subtleties and endless possibilities contained within even the most rudimentary technique.

43
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The master of any game is generally a master of:

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Practice!

44
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What’s a key characteristic of families that stay together?

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They hold fast to certain rituals regardless of the haste and distractions of daily life.

45
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How long will it take me to master “_________?”

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How long do you expect to live? is the only respectable response.

46
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Practice is the:

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path of mastery

47
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Mastery is:

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practice, staying on the path

48
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How is the courage of a master measured?

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By his willingness to surrender to his teacher, the demands of his discipline, his own hard-won proficiency from time to time in order to reach a higher or different level of proficiency.

49
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What is the pitfall of standing on dignity?

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Becoming rigid, armored and not allowing the learning to come through.

50
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When you’ve found your instructor what must you do.

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Suspend disbelief, surrender and give it a try.

51
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Learning almost anything significant involves:

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certain indignities, so we must be prepared to take them.

52
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What is the essence of boredom?

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The obsessive search for novelty.

53
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Where does satisfaction lie?

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Mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

54
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When must we give up some hard-won competence in order to advance to the next stage?

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When we become stuck at a familiar and comfortable skill level.

55
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What’s the best we can hope for while on the master’s journey?

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To cultivate the mind and heart of the beginning at every stage along the wat. For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.

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What is intentionality?

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Character, willpower, attitude, imaging, the mental game.

57
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What is VMBR?

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Viseo-Motor Behavior Rehearsal: it combines exercises in deep relaxation with vivid mental imaging of the skill to be learned.

58
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What improves the effectiveness of visualization?

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The vividness of the image.

59
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What is the purpose of intentionality?

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To fuel the master’s journey for every master is a master of vision.

60
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Those we call masters are dedicate to what?

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The Fundamentals

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What is the paradox of being a master that focuses on the fundamentals?

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That masters are the ones likely to take risks for the sake of higher performance.

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What is the trick with operating along the edge?

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To not only test the edges of the envelope, but also to walk the fine line between endless, goalless practice and those alluring goals that appear along the wat.

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“Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.”

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“After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.”

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Playing the edge requires what?

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A balancing act and awareness to know when you’re pushing yourself beyond safe limits.

65
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Why do we backslide?

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Because every one of use resists significant change whether it’s for the worse or for the better (homeostasis).

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What’s the problem with homeostasis?

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It seeks to keep things the way they are even if they aren’t very good.

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What are the five guidelines to help you stay on the path to mastery?

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  1. Be aware of the way homeostasis works.
  2. Be willing to negotiate with your resistance to change.
  3. Develop a support system.
  4. Follow a regular practice.
  5. Dedicate yourself to lifelong learning.
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Be aware of the way homeostasis works.

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Expect resistance and backlash. Take them as a signal that change is occurring. Don’t panic and give up at the first sign of trouble.

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Be willing to negotiate with your resistance to change.

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Negotiation is the ticket to successful long-term change in everything. The fine art of playing the edge involves a willingness to take one step back for every two forward, sometimes vice versa. It also demands a determination to keep pushing, but not without awareness. Turning off awareness deprives you of guidance and risks damaging the system. Pushing though despite the warning signals increases the possibility of backsliding.

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Develop a support system.

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It helps a great deal to have other people with whom you can share the joys and perils of the change you’re making. The best support system involves those who have gone through or are going through a similar process. Play brings people together.

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Follow a regular practice.

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Gain stability and comfort through practicing on a regular basis for its own sake. Practice is a habit, and any regular practice provides a sort of underlying homeostasis, a stable base during the instability of change.

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Dedicate yourself to lifelong learning.

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Learning is much more than book learning. To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner. The best learning of all involves learning how to learn. The lifelong learner is essentially one who has learned to deal with homeostasis, simply because he or she is doing it all the time. Lifelong learning is the special province of those who travel the path of mastery, the path that never ends.

73
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If you want to get something done:

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Ask a busy person to do it.

74
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What kind of machine are humans.

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The kind that wears out from lack of use.

75
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How do we gain energy?

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By using energy.

76
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How is mental and spiritual lassitude cured?

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By decisive action and a clear intention to act.

77
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How does human energy come into existence?

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Through the use of energy!

78
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“I don’t want to be saved.”

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“I want to be spent.”

79
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How do you maintain high energy levels?

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  1. Maintain physical fitness.
  2. Acknowledge the negative and accentuate the positive.
  3. Tell the truth.
  4. Honor, but don’t indulge your own dark side.
  5. Set your priorities.
  6. Make commitments. Take action.
  7. Get on the path of mastery and stay on it.
80
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What did Goethe say about doing?

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“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

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What are the pitfalls along the path of mastery?

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  1. Conflicting way of life.
  2. Obsessive goal orientation.
  3. Poor instruction.
  4. Lack of competitiveness.
  5. Overcompetitiveness.
  6. Laziness.
  7. Injuries.
  8. Drugs.
  9. Prizes and medals.
  10. Vanity.
  11. Dead seriousness.
  12. Inconsistency.
  13. Perfectionism.
82
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Never marry what kind of person?

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A person who is not a friend of your excitement!

83
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What does failing to play wholeheartedly with a will to win do?

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Degrades the game and insults the opponent.

84
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What is mark of the master in winning and losing?

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Winning and losing with grace.

85
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What does our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix do to us?

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It separates us from our own experiences and robs us of countless hours of the time of our lives.

86
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Most of life is what?

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In-between moments.

87
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If you want to become a learner what must you be willing to do?

A

Play the fool.

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