Read this recently. Solid read. #robertgreene #mastery
— Matt Tuckey 🇬🇧 (@matttuckey.bsky.social) July 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Back in December we had a staff Secret Santa, and I got the concise version of Mastery, a guide to mastering your career. Author Robert Greene - he of 48 Laws of Power, 33 Strategies of War and Art of Seduction fame - lays out the steps to achieving directorial powers.
The full book will obviously go into more detail, and offer more examples to back up its hypotheses, but The Concise Mastery has enough content to put across a point. I expect it’s a little difficult to write an advice book about careers that will apply to most people: different lines of work will have different structures, different experiences to offer, different challenges. So a guide to ‘learning the secrets of the field you have chosen’ will need to be a little bit generic. The sections reflect this – ‘Discover your Calling,’ ‘The Ideal Apprenticeship,’ ‘Absorbing the Master’s Power’ etc. It’s all valid advice, but requires you to fill in the gaps given your own circumstances. You might be a plumber; you might be a PR officer. The same rules apply. But the advice is interspersed with trademark historical stories to back up Greene’s points.
A recommended, serious read.
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