Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35019 in Books
• Published on: 1992-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Mastery
After the excellent 'Way of Aikido' I found 'Mastery' to be a bit of a let down. It didn't seem very coherent and took a whole book to say what could have been expressed in an article or essay. Considering this is based on an article the author wrote you can see why this would be. The ideas aren't especially original or new and if you've read other management or martial arts books then these ideas will have been expressed before and often in a clearer way. My advice would be to buy and read 'Way of Aikido' which is great, but you can miss this and not be too worried.

WELL WORTH THE WAIT!
Having read "The Way of Aikido" three times, I was eager to read "Mastery", but had to wait for it to come into stock. Having obtained it, I read it twice in fairly quick succession, and can say that it was without doubt worth the wait!

Rather than being of the super-enthusiastic change-your-life-in-a-flash genre, this book carefully analyses the steps required to achieve any specific goal, realistically analyses the reasons why goals are so often not achieved, and emphasises the need for long term commitment to learning and practice.

I am especially drawn to the author's emphasis on enjoying the journey as much as the destination, and his observation that the most boring thing of all is to be constantly searching for novelty and superficial stimulation.

This is a deeply satisfying book, and an excellent companion to "The Way of Aikido".

Good book about how to master anything in your life.
I really liked the simplicity of this small book pack full of strategy.

Leonard shows the neophyte how to become more of a master in this life.

Learn the distinctions between mastery

and nonmastery.