Entrepreneurial Blog#7

 This week we were asked to do a book report on one of the books I decided to do mine on Robert Greene's Mastery. Robert Greene's Mastery is a step-by-step guide to learning anything. Mastery offers ideas that can be used straight away in business success.

It begins from the apprentice stage, where one goes deep into learning, learns from masters in the business in order to understand, and takes guidance from masters. The initial stage lays the groundwork of basic things in the topic nicely. Practice is what sharpens the your craft by ongoing fine-tuning and refinement. Hard work, thought over one's errors and failures are essential in the long run for success.

Once one masters the basics, the students move on to the creativity-activity stage, in which they move away from copying towards their own creation. Success in business is based on innovation, not copying. Social intelligence is yet another aspect in which one must comprehend people's behavior, trends in the market, and inter-personal relations. One must have good communication and interpersonal skills to establish a partnership and gain customers' confidence.

Greene also mentions resilience since there are going to be mistakes along the way. All successful people have made mistakes but capitalized on them as stepping stones. Business-wise, this would translate to being flexible, learning from failure, and making adjustments strategically. Experience under their belts, intuition can then be a greatly valuable resource, making decisions more quickly and better from patterns and past experience.

Long-term thinking and patience are the demands of mastery. The majority of entrepreneurs fail because they need instant gratification and quit too early. Being committed, getting something through, and learning to adapt along the way is long-term success. Success does not come from shortcuts but from persistent effort.

With these principles as my guide, I will build a successful business on these learnings by continuous learning, innovation, responsiveness to the market, and adaptability. With Greene's strategy as my guide, I will build a successful long-term business that springs from perseverance and resolve.