Mastery

“You have seduction, another one. Control. Mastery, another one about control. And it seems like Sublime is saying almost the exact opposite. It's about letting go and being small rather than being larger than life.”

“And I have felt this way. You're going to think that this is too grandiose and ridiculous. I have felt that with 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, Art of Seduction, maybe Art of War, but for sure, it sounds like Sublime and 48 Laws of Power as well, where I was like, man, I wish I would have dedicated two years to mastering these like four texts”

“I wrote a book called Mastery, and it's about mastering your career, mastering your profession, reaching that level where you almost don't have to think, where you just have a sense, a fingertip feel for what's going on.”

“Art of Seduction. Another one of his books, entitled Mastery, remains one of my all-time favorite books and is one that I have recommended to the students I've taught in classes in my laboratory and to my friends and family and acquaintances for years.”

“The Robert Green. Welcome back. Andrew Huberman. Well, thank you. I'm not shy about my adoration of your book, Mastery. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Long before I had a podcast, I recommended it to students in my courses related to biology and neuroscience when they would ask for book recommendations.”

“But my question is pretty straightforward. So if 48 Laws of Power was about how the world is constructed and how to navigate it, and Mastery was about mentorship and how to realize our unique gifts and potential, and laws of human nature, you've written a lot of books, my friend, is how we understand ourselves and others in the context of general principles.”

“and think independently. So there's that danger. And then on the level of mastery, in which I'm talking about how the human brain functions and what it wants and what it needs as nourishment, is it needs slowness.”

“I'd like to talk a little bit more about childhood. And I know I've asked you this in a previous meeting, but long ago when I read Mastery, I was just, you know, like clubbed over the head in the best possible sense of the phrase with the statement that you made that some event early in life for each of us kind of portends what we should or ought to explore later in life.”

“themselves. Not just what they meant, but the sounds of them, right? Obsessed me. But after writing mastery, a lot of people would come to me because I talk about your life's task. And I also have a chapter in the new book about this concept.”

“You're a real role model to me and have been for a long time. Oh, thank you. You really are. I mean, ever since I read Mastery, I was like, oh, shit, man, this book, this guy, like, you know, and you're a few years older than me, not terribly much older. And so that's always been a goal of mine is to, you know, identify people for whom I could really model some”

“and, you know, his near-death experience. And then from 50 Cent book, there was a chapter about mastery. So I turned that into the book Mastery. And then, I don't know, human nature. Anyway, I just got totally sidelined.”

“What's your advice to people that wish they had more bravery when it comes to committing what they feel they know is true inside? Well, I talked a lot about that in the book Mastery. So what I tell people is you could go on through your 20s and your 30s following a career path that makes you money, that gets you a family, gives you stability, but isn't quite you.”