primal, 30–32
as reflection of uniqueness, 11–12, 25–26
independence, 74, 100–101, 107–8, 117–19
inferiority, sense of, 71–74
inflexibility, 204
In Search of Lost Time (Proust), 180, 254–55, 260–61
inside-out perspective, 298–304
instinct, 4, 262–63, 273, 288
intelligence:
as heightened in Masters, 256–62
intuition in, 257–58
mechanical, 215–19
primal, 196–99
tactile, 40
internalization, 3, 8, 61, 77, 206
in mastery, 258–60, 264, 288, 289–94
in mentoring, 107–8, 111, 118, 119, 123, 203
Internet, 88–89, 231–35
intuition, 3–4, 8, 54, 199
fusion of rational thinking and, 247–310
high-level, 253, 256–57, 263–64, 266
in warfare, 257–59
see also Masterly intuition
Islam, 238
James, William, 184–85
jazz, 31, 206–9
jets, 75–77
Johnson, Samuel, 198–99
Jonah’s Gourd Vine (Hurston), 70
judgment:
avoiding premature, 140
withholding, 182–83
Jung, Carl, mentoring of, 109–10, 112
Karl August, duke of Weimar, 159–60
Keats, John, 15, 79–80, 175, 182, 183
Keimer, Samuel, 128, 131
Keith, William, 128–29, 130
Klein, Johann, 148–49, 151
knowledge, 51, 55, 57–58, 59
alchemy of, 95–101
flexibility of, 178–79
“how” vs. “what” in, 84–87, 191–92
of human nature, 137–46
specialized vs. interconnected, 267–68
synthesizing of, 304–9
Langley, Samuel, 216
language:
nonverbal, 138–39
Pirahã culture and, 72–74, 161–63, 298–304
and reasoning skills, 134, 196
Rosetta stone in decoding of, 236–42
thinking beyond, 196–99
Last Supper, The (Leonardo), 291
laziness, as Deadly Reality, 141, 144
Leakey, Richard, 5
Le Corbusier, 84–85, 220
Leonardo da Vinci, 8, 10, 54, 85, 86
apprenticeship of, 290
drawing as thinking for, 198, 289
experimentation of, 63
focus on details by, 192–93, 291–93
on impatience, 203–4
inclination of, 26, 28
Life’s Task of, 21–25
mastery achieved through internalization by, 289–93
letting go, in creative process, 200
life force, 289–94
life-or-death strategy, 40–43
Life’s Task, 15, 19–46, 112, 179, 206, 241, 250, 253, 261, 284, 311
light, speed of, 275–78
Lilienthal, Otto, 216, 218
linguistics, 31, 72–74, 162, 196, 298–302
Lisp (computer language), 88, 232
literature, 68–70, 127, 159–60, 186, 305–6
life recreated through, 249–55
Livingston, Jessica, 164
Logos, 268
Love Supreme, A (Coltrane), 208
luck, 84, 98–99, 104
madness, 245–46
magic, 4–5, 104
magical thinking, 9
Magic Flute, The (Mozart), 175
Maillart, Robert, 85
Malcomson, Alexander, 83
Marcus Aurelius, 65, 268
masks, social, 29, 139–40, 142, 155–56, 160
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 111, 162, 228, 230
artificial-intelligence lab of, 34
Masterly intuition, 256–67
Masters:
fusion of intuition and rational thinking in, 247–311
heightened intuition of, see Masterly intuition
productive old age of, 266–67
X factor of, 269–70
mastery:
through connection to environment, 270–73
following one’s own path in, 22, 24–25, 42
fusion of intuitive and rational in, 247–311
keys to, 10–17, 25–29, 54–64, 102–8, 133, 175–205, 255–69
learning as basic value in, 67–68
profound love for subject of, 31, 169–70
sense of the whole in, 268, 294–96
seven strategies for attaining, 269–311
social class as impediment to, 96–97
time as critical factor in, 259–60, 269
as ultimate power, 1–17
mathematics, 197, 201
Matsuoka, Yoky, 16, 33–36, 111, 228–31, 314–15
Maxwell, James, 268, 275, 277
mechanical intelligence, 215–19
Medici, Lorenzo de’, 23
Melville, Herman, 179
memory, 197, 263–66, 288–89
Mendeleyev, Dmitry, 197
Mentor Dynamic, 103–7, 112
mentoring, mentors, 15, 107, 93–123
back-and-forth dynamic in, 119–22
dependency on, 203
four strategies for, 108–22
independence from, 100–101, 107–8, 117–19
keys to mastery in, 102–8
lack of, 122–23
submission to, 102–3, 108
transfiguring ideas of, 116–19
two-way dynamic in, 103–7, 112
Mephistopheles, 305
Michelangelo, 24
Middle Ages, apprenticeship in, 59, 89
Milan, duke of, 291
Milton, John, 69
Milwaukee Art Museum, 86, 222
mirror experiment, 211–12
mirror neurons, 7–8, 59, 104, 134, 146
missionaries, 71–72, 161, 298
mitt work, 39, 119–20, 294–95
Moby-Dick (Melville), 179
molecular biology, 197–98
Mona Lisa (Leonardo), 292–93
money, 42, 65–68
monkeys, 210–11
Montesquiou, Count de, 255
Morris, Robert, 88, 232–34
movement:
in architecture, 84–87, 220
in art, 291–92
Mozart, Anna Maria, 169–73
Mozart, Leopold, 36–37, 38, 169–73
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 10, 15, 274, 171, 172, 175, 182, 279
Creative-Active Phase of, 169–74, 178
genius of, 90, 169–70, 178
parental control of, 169–73
rebellion of, 36–37
second transformation and, 169–75
multitasking, dangers of, 60
Murphy, William H., 82
Naïve Perspective, 135–38
naïveté, 129–31, 165, 202
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 25, 107, 236, 239
NASA, 85, 220
National Public Radio, 162
natural powers, 219–24
natural selection, 188
nature, 21–22, 24, 25, 51, 95–96, 210, 305, 309
navigation, Caroline Islanders’ mastery of, 270–73
Negative Capability, 175, 265
as source of creative power, 182–84
negative cues, 194
neoteny, 74
Netscape, 88, 231–32
neurobiotics, 35, 111
neurons, 60–61
mirror, 7–8, 59
neuroscience, 33, 211–13, 229–30, 268
Newton, Isaac, 187, 274–75
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 17, 304, 311
Norman Conquest, 249, 251
Norris, Isaac, 132–33
observation, 7, 15, 58
as basis for literature, 160, 251, 254–55
in creative thinking, 52, 274
&nbs
p; deep, 56–58
of Leonardo, 22–23
of mentors, 106–7
nonjudgmental, 183
opinion vs., 183
of rules and procedures, 57
social, 130–31, 136, 137–40, 152
as step toward mastery, 273
verification of, 188–89
and visual thinking, 198
obsession, in Creative Task, 179–80
obstetrics, 147–49
Oceania, 270
Olympic Sculpture Park, 243–44
open field, as Creative-Active strategy, 224–28
opera, 37, 171–75, 178, 179, 200
Operation Desert Storm, 286–88
optical illusions, 210–11
Original Mind, 175–77
Ortega y Gasset, José, 25
ostinato rigore, 203
Other:
achieving mastery through submission to, 298–304
fear of, 303
Pacquiao, Manny, mentoring of, 120–22, 296
Page, Larry, anomalies recognized by, 193–94
pain, brain in, 212
Pantheon, 85
paradigms:
examining of, 193–94, 245
as impediment to creativity, 227
Paradise Lost (Milton), 69
parents:
accepting, 65
critical, 38, 49
defying of, 37, 38, 50–51
exploitation by, 36–37, 169–73
guidance from, 54
idealization of, 134–35
influence of, 11, 32, 33, 49–51, 251–52
mentors as reflection of, 107–8, 112
as obstacles, 36–38
Parker, Charlie “Bird,” 31, 206, 208
passion, as element of mastery, 11
passive aggression, as Deadly Reality, 141, 145
passivity:
in observation, 57
pitfalls of, 13–14
Pasteur, Louis, 185
patience, 43, 62, 179, 223, 224
Penfeld, Wilder, 210
penicillin, 185
perdu, 260
periodic table, 197
persistence, 3, 114–15, 121, 123
persona:
as art form, 155
crafting of, 152–56
perspective, altering of, 191–96
Pestalozzi, Johann, 274
phantom limb paralysis, 211–12
phantom limb syndrome, 33, 210–12
Philip II, king of Macedonia, 106
philosopher’s stone, 4
mentors compared to, 104
phonograph, 186
piano, 116
Pierce, William, 266
Pindar, 29
Pirahã, 72–74, 161–63, 298–303
Planck, Max, 189
Pleasures and Days (Proust), 251–52
poetry, 79–80
Polanyi, Michael, 123
political behavior, politicking, 15, 54–55
avoidance of, 164–65
in court, 23, 159–60
money and, 212
in work environment, 57, 129–30, 135, 152, 156–57
politics:
Franklin’s career in, 132–33
French, 239
Pons, Timothy, 210–11
power:
keys to mastery of, 10–17
mastery as ultimate, 1–17
power relationships, 57
practice, 11, 34, 58–62, 206, 246
achieving mastery through, 285–89, 296–97
as denigrated, 288–89
in intuition, 254
love of, 36, 38, 170–71, 296–97
moving toward resistance and pain in, 78–81
trusting in, 76–78
prehendere, 59
preverbal intelligence, 8, 59, 175, 196, 283
primal inclination strategy, 30–32
primal intelligence, 196–99
primal powers, achieving mastery through, 270–73
primates:
humans vs. other, 6–7, 134
visual development of, 6
printing press, 185, 215
programming, 87–90
prototypes, 190
Proust, Jeanne, 249, 251, 252, 253
Proust, Marcel, 15, 246
apprenticeship of, 253
bisexuality of, 251
charm of, 250
Creative Task of, 180
death of, 255
despair of, 252, 261
evolution to mastery of, 249–55, 260–61
frailty of, 249, 251, 252, 253
Life’s Task of, 250, 253
mastery achieved through time for, 260–61
setbacks for, 252
strangeness of, 250
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