 | Mastery (Plume) by George Leonard
Buy used from: £4.45 This is the most important book ever written on the subject of Mastery. The author is a genius, his work applies to all domains.
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 | Flow: The Classic Work on How to Achieve Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £5.99 Compliment's George Leonard's book on Mastery very well. The balance between challenge and skill explains very well what happens on the the plateau of the Mastery Curve in Leonard's work.
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 | Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Buy new: £7.97 / Used from: £5.85 This book acts as a map for making your mastery known in any domain. You will also feel like an scientist on the subject of creativity after reading it.
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 | Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee
Buy new: £7.38 / Used from: £7.17 Bruce Lee's work is a perfect example of mastery.
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 | Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living (The Bruce Lee library) by Bruce Lee
Buy new: £6.33 / Used from: £4.98 A collection of Bruce Lee's quotes. An absolutely fantastic book.
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 | Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives by Dan Millman
Buy new: £5.75 / Used from: £2.99 A very inspirational story and another example of mastery.
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 | 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £3.94 Stephen Covey's principles of effectives will always apply to all areas of life.
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 | The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
Buy new: £7.78 / Used from: £5.99 A different and more up-to-date structure of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
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 | Winning the Inner Game: Mastering the Inner Game for Peak Performance by L. Michael Hall
Buy new: £17.14 / Used from: £16.27 The inner game is becoming more and more popular these days and this is an excellent book to begin with.
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 | Secrets of Personal Mastery: Advanced Techniques for Accessing Your Higher Levels of Consciousness by L. Michael Hall PhD
Buy new: £14.42 / Used from: £10.40 Next to George Leonard's book on Mastery, this is an excellent book full of principles and strategies.
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 | Unleashed: A Guide to Your Ultimate Self-Actualization (Meta-Coaching) by L. Michael Hall
Buy new: £21.38 / Used from: £17.10 A how-to book on actualizing all of your potentials.
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 | Modeling with NLP by Robert D. Dilts
Buy new: £27.54 Modeling is about taking specific elements of excellence from an expert and transferring them to another. You have in this book a collection of tools that can help you absorb excellence from others.
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 | Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality by Tad James
Buy new: £26.59 / Used from: £21.40 Timing is everything, and the way you represent time determines the way you spend it.
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 | Adventures with Time Lines by L.Michael Hall
Buy new: £22.49 / Used from: £31.73 An update of what Time Lining is. Learn how to learn as much as you can from the past, prepare as much as you can for the future, and be engaged in the present.
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 | Meta-Coaching, Volume 1: For Higher Levels of Success and Transformation: 1 by Michael Hall
Buy new: £20.89 / Used from: £17.64 This is about coaching others but use this book to coach yourself instead. Understand what "change" actually is and use it in the process of Mastery.
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 | Meta-Coaching vol II: Coaching Conversations - For Transformational Change: 2 by Michael Hall
Buy new: £24.23 / Used from: £30.79 Use "conversation" to coach yourself. Lots of powerful coaching patterns..
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 | Self Actualization Psychology: The Positive Psychology of Human Nature's Bright Side (Meta-Coaching) by Michael Hall
Buy new: £20.43 / Used from: £16.34 This is the theory of self-actualization, which is what Mastery is all about.
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 | The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Buy new: £3.68 / Used from: £1.24 A timeless classic for dealing with complexity and conflict.
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 | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Buy new: £6.43 / Used from: £3.08 Have a beginners mind to keep that journey of Mastery going.
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 | Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters (Financial Times Series) by Jerry Porras
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £2.75 This is a book on how successful people stay successful. It is more business oriented but you can adapt it to your purpose.
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 | The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge
Buy new: £12.50 / Used from: £8.25 Systemic Thinking, as opposed to linear thinking, expands your perspective on things. A fantastic chapter on mastery.
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 | The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking by David Perkins
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £4.55 David Perkins is a genius. He has created a structure and an approach on how to approach certain problems that demand more than linear thinking. This compliments Leonard's book on Mastery too.
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 | Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice by Howard Gardner
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £6.91 The path of mastery is the only way genius can become manifest in the "real" world. The genius that you can create begins with one of these several intelligences.
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 | Meeting the Shadow: Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature (New Consciousness Reader): The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature by Connie Zweig
Buy used from: £3.44 Resources for mastery can come from anywhere, and the Shadow is probably one of the most important resources.
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 | How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book) by Mortimer J. Adler
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £7.28 Master the art of reading so that you can take the maximum amount of understanding (not information or entertainment) from the greatest books that have been written.
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