This book is all about teaching readers thru example how to be a master. A master is someone who has successfully advanced in a skill to become a working professional that others admire and seek out. Biographies of masters throughout the ages are given. I liked how the examples were people of all ages, ethnicities, genders, geographic locations, and so on. To not emphasize academic careers over others, there were even athletes and non-conventional professions thrown in. There is a very helpful chapter on emotional intelligence urging readers to not let their emotions or interpersonal politics get in the way of their success. While this book has a lot to offer, the one downside I found was that it was repetitive and at times very boring. I got two thirds of the way through the book and had to put it down because I realized I have 100 pages to go and was reading the same paragraph from five chapters ago. Greene makes a lot of excellent points, but I think this book would be better if it was more concise. I got the impression the author was trying to fill pages and meet a word count at times instead of trying to get the information across in the most efficient way.
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