| Introduction |
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I Discover Your Calling: The Life's Task |
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21 | (4) |
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25 | (4) |
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Strategies for Finding Your Life's Task |
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1 Return to your origins---The primal inclination strategy |
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30 | (2) |
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2 Occupy the perfect niche---The Darwinian strategy |
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32 | (4) |
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3 Avoid the false path---The rebellion strategy |
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36 | (2) |
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4 Let go of the past---The adaptation strategy |
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38 | (2) |
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5 Find your way back---The life-or-death strategy |
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40 | (3) |
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43 | (4) |
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II Submit to Reality: The Ideal Apprenticeship |
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49 | (5) |
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54 | (11) |
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The Apprenticeship Phase---The Three Steps or Modes |
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56 | (9) |
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Step One Deep Observation---The Passive Mode |
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56 | (2) |
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Step Two Skills Acquisition---The Practice Mode |
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58 | (4) |
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Step Three Experimentation---The Active Mode |
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62 | (3) |
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Strategies for Completing the Ideal Apprenticeship |
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1 Value learning over money |
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65 | (3) |
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2 Keep expanding your horizons |
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68 | (3) |
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3 Revert to a feeling of inferiority |
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71 | (4) |
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75 | (3) |
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5 Move toward resistance and pain |
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78 | (3) |
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6 Apprentice yourself in failure |
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81 | (3) |
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7 Combine the "how" and the "what" |
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84 | (3) |
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8 Advance through trial and error |
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87 | (3) |
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90 | (3) |
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III Absorb the Master's Power: The Mentor Dynamic |
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93 | (32) |
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95 | (7) |
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102 | (6) |
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Strategies for Deepening the Mentor Relationship |
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1 Choose the mentor according to your needs and inclinations |
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109 | (3) |
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2 Gaze deep into the mentor's mirror |
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112 | (4) |
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3 Transfigure their ideas |
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116 | (3) |
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4 Create a back-and-forth dynamic |
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119 | (3) |
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122 | (3) |
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IV See People as They Are: Social Intelligence |
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125 | (42) |
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127 | (6) |
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133 | (13) |
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Specific Knowledge---Reading People |
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138 | (3) |
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General Knowledge---The Seven Deadly Realities |
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141 | (5) |
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Strategies for Acquiring Social Intelligence |
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146 | (18) |
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1 Speak through your work |
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147 | (5) |
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2 Craft the appropriate persona |
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152 | (4) |
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3 See yourself as others see you |
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156 | (3) |
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159 | (5) |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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164 | (3) |
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V Awaken the Dimensional Mind: The Creative-Active |
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167 | (80) |
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The Second Transformation |
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169 | (6) |
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175 | (30) |
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Step One The Creative Task |
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179 | (2) |
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Step Two Creative Strategies |
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181 | (18) |
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A Cultivate Negative Capability |
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182 | (2) |
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184 | (3) |
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C Alternate the Mind Through "The Current" |
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187 | (4) |
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191 | (5) |
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Looking at the "what" instead of the "how" |
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Rushing to generalities and ignoring details |
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Confirming paradigms and ignoring anomalies |
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Fixating on what is present, ignoring what is absent |
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E Revert to Primal Forms of Intelligence |
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196 | (3) |
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Step Three The Creative Breakthrough---Tension and Insight |
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199 | (3) |
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202 | (3) |
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Strategies for the Creative-Active Phase |
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205 | (40) |
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206 | (4) |
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2 The Fact of Great Yield |
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210 | (5) |
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3 Mechanical Intelligence The Wright brothers |
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215 | (4) |
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219 | (5) |
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224 | (4) |
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228 | (3) |
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7 The Evolutionary Hijack |
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231 | (5) |
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236 | (6) |
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Jean-Francois Champollion |
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9 Alchemical Creativity and the Unconscious |
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242 | (3) |
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245 | (2) |
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VI Fuse the Intuitive With the Rational: Mastery |
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247 | (65) |
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249 | (6) |
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255 | (14) |
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The Roots of Masterly Intuition |
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262 | (5) |
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267 | (2) |
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Strategies for Attaining Mastery |
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269 | (41) |
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1 Connect to your environment---Primal Powers |
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270 | (4) |
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2 Play to your strengths---Supreme Focus |
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274 | (11) |
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3 Transform yourself through practice---The Fingertip Feel |
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285 | (4) |
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4 Internalize the details---The Life Force |
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289 | (5) |
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5 Widen your vision---The Global Perspective |
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294 | (4) |
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6 Submit to the other---The Inside-out Perspective |
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298 | (6) |
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7 Synthesize all forms of knowledge---The Universal Man/Woman |
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304 | (6) |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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Reversal:The false self--the true self--genius demystified--your purpose in life--realizing your potential |
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310 | (2) |
| Contemporary Master Biographies |
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312 | (5) |
| Acknowledgments |
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317 | (2) |
| Selected Bibliography |
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319 | (4) |
| Index |
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