Mastery
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Champollion, Jean-Francois, 238–42
chaos, managing, 265–66
Charles I, king of England, 150–51
charm, 136, 165
chess, 256, 264
childbed fever, 147–49
childhood, 4, 11, 243
dependency of, 54, 134–35
genius in, 36
limitations evidenced in, 43
primal inclination evidenced in, 30–32
as reflected in mentors, 107–8
reverting to, 73–74
sense of wonder in, 28, 31, 74, 175–77, 202
uniqueness expressed in, 25–26
chimpanzees, 8, 258
Chomsky, Noam, 162, 301
Christianity, 27, 71–72, 95–96, 161, 238, 302–3, 304
Chuang Tzu, 255–56
Cleopatra, 240
Coltrane, John, 15, 31, 187, 206–9, 245
communication:
nonverbal, 30, 138–39, 224
social, 146
complacency, 202, 224
computer science, 87–90, 164, 193, 229
confirmation bias, 183
conflict avoidance, 161
conformism, 227, 285
as Deadly Reality, 141, 142
as impediment to uniqueness, 26–27, 29, 42
confrontation, indirect, 145
consciousness, expanding of, 4–5
conservatism, emotional pitfall of, 202–3, 212, 225
contagious disease, 148, 185, 194
contradictions, 244–45
Conventional Mind, 176–77, 191
Conversations with Goethe (Eckermann), 102
Coptic language, 238, 240, 242
court, rituals of, 23, 159–60
craftsmanship, craftspeople, 64, 219
Creative-Active Phase, 3, 135, 167–246
keys to mastery of, 175–205
nine strategies for, 205–45
six emotional pitfalls in, 202–5
Creative Breakthrough, 179, 199–201
Creative Dynamic, Primary Law of, 180–81
creative process, 24, 199–201
compared to alchemy, 242–45
in developing new ideas, 227–28
evolution of, 223–24
Creative Strategies, 179, 181–99
Creative Task, 179–81
creative thinking, 3, 62, 127, 204
adaptability as essential to, 234–36
analogies in, 187
childhood spirit in, 176–78
compared to expanded vision, 191
going beyond language in, 196–99
heightened consciousness in, 205
imagining new uses in, 233–34
impediments to, 176–77, 181, 191–96
misconception about, 235
models and diagrams in, 197–98
Negative Capability as key to, 183
openness in, 185, 236
outburst and frenzy of, 172–75
in science, 98, 100, 101
social intelligence and, 146
subverting shorthands in, 191–96
synesthesia in, 198–99
transformation to, 52–56
transforming spirit of, 173–75
Crick, Francis, 197–98
criticism:
of authority, 102–3
as constructive, 62, 76, 115–16, 163
derisive, 230, 285
exposing self to, 62–63
public, 162–63
Curie, Marie, 30, 193
Curie, Pierre, 193
cycle of accelerated returns, 60, 61, 77–78
dance, 30–31, 66–67, 224–28
Dance, William, 97, 98
Darwin, Charles, 10, 15, 110, 192, 197
anomalies recognized by, 194
Apprenticeship Phase for, 49–54
Beagle voyage of, 11, 50–54, 62, 187–88
and first transformation, 49–54
as model for apprenticeship, 55–56, 58, 62
see also evolution, theory of
Darwinian strategy, 32–36
Das Rheingold (Wagner), 200
Davis, Miles, 207
Davy, Humphry, 97–101, 104–6, 111
Deep Observation (The Passive Mode), 56–58
democratization, 102
in mentoring, 121–22
demotic language, 236–38, 242
Denishawn method, 225, 228
destiny, sense of, 25–26, 261
detachment, 7, 265
in social interactions, 130, 139
in view of self, 55, 61, 63, 80, 155, 157–59, 203
determination, 76–77, 79–80, 90–91, 123
Dimensional Mind, 167–246
Creative Breakthrough for, 199–201
Creative Strategies for, 181–99
Creative Task for, 179–81
dimensional thinking, 236–42
discipline, 13, 38, 75, 115–16, 128, 177, 246, 253
diversity, 28–29
Dogood, Silence, 127–28, 130
Don Giovanni (Mozart), 173–75
Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes (Everett), 162–63
doubt, in creative process, 199, 201, 204, 260
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 194
dreams, 245, 301
inspiration from, 198, 200–201, 223, 232
drugs, 4, 14, 71, 205, 245–46
Duncan, Isadora, 225
Eckermann, Johann Peter, 102
Edison, Thomas Alva, 15, 185–86, 197, 201, 256
Creative Task of, 179–80
self-apprenticeship of, 122–23
education, formal, 49–50, 54, 69–70, 84–86, 87–88, 122, 276
ego, 55, 182, 204
Einstein, Albert, 15, 25, 30, 31, 64, 66, 90, 146, 185, 192, 197, 198, 205, 256, 257, 259–60, 268, 269, 274–79
mastery achieved through focus on strengths by, 274–79
Negative Capability of, 182–83
see also relativity, theories of
electricity, 96, 122
electromagnetism, 8, 100–101, 105, 197, 274–75, 277
emotions, 14, 55, 135, 145–46, 163, 179, 180, 195
as impediments in Creative-Active Phase, 202–5
empathy, 134, 136, 139, 157
for animals, 283–84
as nonverbal communication, 138–39
Pirahã’s lack of, 299–300
Endymion (Keats), 79–80
enlightenment, 113–15, 201
entrepreneurs, 83–84, 89, 194–95, 235
environmental connection, achieving mastery through, 270–73
envy, 15, 38, 107, 141–42, 241
Ernst, Max, 186
Ernsting warehouse, 220–22
Eruption (Fernández), 243
ether, 275–77
Everett, Daniel, 15, 31, 162, 312–13
Apprenticeship Phase of, 71–74
mastery achieved through submission to other, 298–304
public criticism of, 161–63
Everett, Keren Graham, 71–72, 161, 298, 299
evolution, theory of, 11, 53, 58, 62, 183, 187–88, 192, 194, 197, 267, 306
evolutionary hijack, 231–236
Experimental Researches in Electricity (Faraday), 122
Experimentation (The Active Mode), 56, 62–64
Eye and Brain (Gregory), 32–33, 110
eyes, 6, 110–11, 191, 273
fact of great yield, 210–14
failure, 179
benefits of, 24–25, 42, 261
as incentive, 75–78, 253
learning through, 81–84, 156–57, 260
fame, 241, 309
Faraday, Michael, 8, 15, 110, 122, 146, 183, 192, 197, 198, 268, 275
mentoring of, 95–101, 104–8
Faust (Goethe), 307, 308
Faust legend, 305
feedlot analysis, 281–83
Fernández, Teresita, 16, 313
Creative-Active strategy of, 242–45
interest in alchemy
of, 242–43
persona crafted by, 152–56
field theories, 275
film direction, 160–61, 266
fingertip feel, 256, 258, 285–89
Fischer, Bobby, 256, 264
FitzRoy, Robert, 50–51, 53
Fleming, Alexander, 185
flight:
Leonardo’s obsession with, 23, 85, 216
as pioneered by Wright brothers, 216–18
flightiness, 141, 144–45
flight training, 75–78, 285–86
focus, 4–5, 34, 44, 152, 176
achieving mastery through, 274–85
in creative process, 184, 199, 291
on details, 192–93
in early ancestors, 6–7, 9
in practice, 59, 60–61, 80, 81, 122, 169–70
fools, 159–64
Ford, Henry, 15, 195, 197
Apprenticeship Phase of, 81–84
fossils, 52, 53
François I, king of France, 21
Franklin, Benjamin, 15
apprenticeship of, 65–68, 127
evolving social intelligence of, 127–33, 136, 146
as naïve, 129–31, 136
productive old age of, 266–67
Franklin, James, 127–28, 130
Franklin, Josiah, 65
Frazier, Joe, 294
French Revolution, 239, 308
Freud, Sigmund, 109–10
frontal cortex, 60–61
Fuller, Buckminster, 15, 40–43, 190
function, vs. appearance, 84–87
Futch, Eddie, 38–39, 67, 119–20, 294, 297
Galápagos Islands, 53, 187
Galileo, 187
Galois, Evariste, 201
Galton, Francis, 10
Gaudí, 85
general knowledge, 137–38
seven deadly realities of, 141–46
genius, 5, 12, 17, 90, 237, 256
germs, 148, 185, 194
gliders, 216–18
global perspective, 294–98
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1, 15, 29, 165, 198
daemon of, 25, 305–7, 309
exploitation of fools by, 159–60
illnesses of, 305–6, 307
mastery achieved through synthesis of knowledge by, 304–9
as scientist, 307–8
golden boys, 76–77, 288–89
Gould, Glenn, 15, 116–19, 256
Graham, Martha, 15, 30–31
apprenticeship of, 66–67
Creative-Active strategy of, 224–28
Graham, Paul, 15, 164
Apprenticeship Phase of, 87–90
Creative-Active strategy of, 213–35
Grandin, Temple, 16, 314
evolving social intelligence of, 156–59
limitations overcome by, 43–45, 156–58, 284
mastery achieved through focus on strengths by, 280–84
see also autism
grandiosity, 204
Greek, 236–37
Gregory, Richard, 33, 109–10
Guerrero, Alberto, 116–18
Gutenberg, Johannes, 185
habit, 181, 296
hackers, hacking, 87–89, 232, 234, 235
Hadamard, Jacques, 197
hands:
and brain, 35, 64, 198, 210–11, 219, 230
prosthetic, 230
robotic, 34–35, 228–31
hardwiring:
of brain connections, 211, 264, 301
of skills, 60–61, 77, 209
Harvard University, 41, 87–88, 89, 164, 231–32, 234
Harvey, William, agility of, 149–52
Hayman, Laure, 250
heart function, 149–50
heightened intellect, 256–57
hieroglyphs, 236–42
high end, 228–31
Hill, Virgil, 39
Hillman, James, 45–46
Hobbes, Thomas, 151
Homo erectus, 267
Homo magister, 9
Hook, Sidney, 196
Hopkins, Frederick Gowland, 194
human behavior:
extreme, 139–40
overall patterns of, 137–38, 141–46
human beings:
early evolution of, 5–10
learning in animals vs., 4
as ultimate opportunists, 213–14
Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 308
humility, 102–3, 115, 183
Hurston, Zora Neale, 68–71
Hussein, Saddam, 286
identification, 8
empathy as, 134, 136, 138–39
imagination, 188–89, 195
imitation:
learning through, 59–60, 79
pitfall of, 206, 209, 227
Immediate Experience Principle (IEP), 301–2
impatience, 203–4
Improvement of the Mind (Watts), 96–97, 104, 107, 122
inclination, 112, 206, 274
in choice of career path, 27–28, 229
as inner calling, 12–14, 29