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What follows is a list of the extended works that I consulted to craft Mastery. It numbers more than 100 books and covers everything from

poetry to architecture to biography and neuroscience.

They were instrumental in contributing to the insights and stories you have or will read in Mastery and I hope this original source material helps you with your own research and creative endeavors.

Robert GreeneSeptember 2012

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Abernathy, Charles M. and Robert M. Hamm. Surgical Intuition: What It Is and How to Get It. Philadelphia, PA: Hanley & Belfus, Inc., 1995.Adkins, Lesley and Roy. The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code. New York: Perennial, 2001.Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Trans. Gregory Hays. New York: The Modern Library, 2003.Ball, Philip. Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral. New York: Harper, 2008.Bate, Walter Jackson. John Keats. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963.Bazzana, Kevin. Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004.Bergman, Ingmar. The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2007.

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Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution. Trans. Arthur Mitchell. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911.Beveridge, W. I. B. The Art of Scientific Investigation. Caldwell, NJ: The Blackburn Press, 1957.Biswell, Andrew. The Real Life of Anthony Burgess. London, UK: Picador, 2005.Boden, Margaret A. The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. London, UK: Routledge, 2004.Bohm, David, and F. David Peat. Science, Order, and Creativity. London, UK: Routledge, 1989.Boyd, Valerie. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribner, 2004.Bramly, Serge. Leonardo: The Artist and the Man. Trans. Sian Reynolds. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.

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Brands, H. W. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.Campbell, Bernard Grant. Human Evolution: An Introduction to Man’s Adaptations. London, UK: Heinemann Educational Books, 1967.Capra, Fritjof. The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance. New York: Doubleday, 2007.Carter, William C. Marcel Proust: A Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.Carus, Paul. Goethe, With Special Consideration of his Philosophy. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Library, 1915.Chuang Tzu. Basic Writings. Trans. Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.Cohen, I. Bernard. Benjamin Franklin’s Science. Cambridge, UK: Harvard University Press, 1996.

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Corballis, Michael C. The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1991.Curie, Eve. Madame Curie: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2001.Damasio, Antonio. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. Boston, MA: Mariner, 2000.Darwin, Charles. Autobiographies (Penguin Classics). London, UK: Penguin Books, 2002.Darwin, Charles. The Voyage of the Beagle (Modern Library). New York: Random House, 2001.Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Oxford’s World Classics). New York: Oxford University Press, 1952.De Mille, Agnes. Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham. New York: Random House, 1991.

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De Munck, Bert. Technologies of Learning: Apprenticeships in Antwerp from the 15th Century to the End of the Ancient Regime (1100-1800).

Washington, DC: Brepols Publishing, 2007.Donald, Merlin. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.Dreyfus, Hubert L., and Stuart E. Dreyfus. Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer. New York: Free Press, 1986.Eales, Richard. Chess: The History of a Game. New York: Facts on File, 1985.Ehrenzweig, Anton. The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1971.Einstein, Alfred. Mozart: His Character, His Work. New York: Oxford University Press, 1945.Ericsson, K. Anders, ed. The Road to Excellence: The Acquisition of Expert Performancein the Arts, Sciences, Sports and Games. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1996.

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Faber, Toby. Stradivari’s Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection. New York: Random House, 2006.Fauconnier, Gilles and Mark Turner. The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities. New York: Basic Books, 2003. Franklin, Benjamin. Benjamin Franklin: His Life. Boston, MA: Ginn and Company, 1888. Fraser, David. Knight’s Cross: A Life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. New York: HarpersCollins Publishers, 1994. Gallwey, W. Timothy. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance. New York: Random House, 1974. Gardner, Howard. Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity. New York: Basic Books, 1993.  Gardner, Howard. Five Minds of the Future. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2007.

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Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books, 2004.Gleick, James. Isaac Newton. New York: Vintage Books, 2003. Goodall, Jane. In the Shadow of Man. Boston, MA: Houghton Milton Harcourt, 1971. Gregory, Andrew. Harvey’s Heart: The Discovery of Blood Circulation. Cambridge, UK: Icon Books, 2010.Groopman, Jerome E. How Doctors Think. New York: Houghton Milton Company, 2007. Gruber, Howard E. Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity. London, UK: Wildwood House Ltd., 1974. Hadamard, Jacques. The Mathematician’s Mind: The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

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Hayes, John R. The Complete Problem Solver Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1989. Herrigel, Eugen. Zen in the Art of Archery. New York: Pantheon Books, 1953. Hillman, James. The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling. New York: Warner Books, 1997. Hirshfeld, Alan. The Electric Life of Michael Faraday. New York: Walker & Company, 2006.Hogarth, Robin M. Educating Intuition. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2001.Holyoak, Keith J. and Paul Thagard. Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought. Boston, MA: MIT Press, 1996. Howe, Michael J. A. Genius Explained. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Humphrey, Nicholas. The Inner Eye: Social Intelligence in Evolution. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008.Hutchins, Edwin. Cognition in the Wild. Boston, MA: MIT Press, 1995. Ickes, William. Empathic Accuracy. New York: The Guilford Press, 1997. Isaacson, Walter. Einstein: His Life and Universe. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.Johnson-Laird, Philip. How We Reason. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008.Josephson, Matthew. Edison: A Biography. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992.Keats, John. Selected Letters (Oxford’s World Classics). New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Klein, Gary. Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999.Klein, Gary. The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work. New York: Currency Books, 2003. Knight, David. Humphry Davy: Science and Power. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. Koestler, Arthur. Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe. New York: MacMillan, 1959. Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. London, UK: Penguin Books, 1989.Köhler, Wolfgang. The Mentality of Apes. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation (US reprint), 1976. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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Leakey, Richard E., and Roger Lewin. Origins: What New Discoveries Reveal About the Emergence of Our Species and Its Possible Future. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.Lehrer, Jonah. Proust Was a Neuroscientist. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007. Lewis, David. We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific. Honolulu, HI: The University Press of Hawaii, 1972.Ludwig, Emil. Goethe: The History of a Man. Trans. Ethel Colburn Mayne. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928.Lumsden, Charles J., and Edward O. Wilson. Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.Maestripieri, Dario. Machiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World. Chicago, IL:  University of Chicago Press, 2007. Mahon, Basil. The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003.

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McGilchrist, Iain. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.McKim, Robert H. Experiences in Visual Thinking. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1972.McPhee, John. A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of Bill Bradley at Princeton. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978.Moorehead, Alan. Darwin and the Beagle. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. A Life in Letters (Penguin Classics). New York: Penguin Books, 2006. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits. Trans. R. J. Hollingdale.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986.Nuland, Sherwin B. The Doctor’s Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.

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Obler, Loraine K. and Deborah Fein. The Exceptional Brain: Neuropsychology of Talent and Special Abilities. New York: The Guilford Press, 1988. Ortega y Gasset, José. Man and People. Trans. Willard R. Trask. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1963.Ortega y Gasset, José. Meditations on Hunting. New York: Scribner (US reprint), 1986. Piaget, Jean and Bäbel Inhelder. The Psychology of the Child. Trans. Helen Weaver. New York: Basic Books, 1969. Piaget, Jean. The Psychology of Intelligence. New York: Routledge, 1950. Pindar. The Odes (Penguin Classics). Trans. C.M. Bowra. New York: Penguin Books, 1969. Polanyi, Michael. Personal Knowledge: Toward a Post–Critical Philosophy. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1974.

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Polanyi, Michael. The Tacit Dimension. London, UK: Routledge, 1966. Popper, Karl R., and John C. Eccles. The Self and Its Brain. London, UK: Routledge, 1990.Prigojine, Ilya. Is Future Given? River Edge, NJ: World Science Publishing Co., 2003.  Prigogine, Ilya. The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature. New York: The Free Press, 1997.Quammen, David. The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.Ratey, John J. A User’s Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain. New York: Vintage Books, 2002.Ratliff, Ben. Coltrane: The Story of a Sound. New York: Picador, 2007.

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Restak, Richard. The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own: Insights from a Practicing Neurologist. New York: Crown Publishers, 1991. Restak, Richard. The New Brain: How the Modern Age is Rewiring Your Mind. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 2003. Rothenberg, Albert. The Emerging Goddess: The Creative Process in Art, Science, and Other Fields. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1990.Sappenfield, James A. A Sweet Instruction: Benjamin Franklin’s Journalism as a Literary Apprenticeship. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973. Sacks, Oliver. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Schopenhauer, Arthur. The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims. Stillwell, KS: Prometheus Books, 2008. Schrödinger, Erwin. What Is Life: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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Schultz, Duane. Intimate Friends, Dangerous Rivals: The Turbulent Relationship Between Freud & Jung. Los Angeles, CA: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1990.Sekida, Katsuki. Zen Training. New York: Weatherhill, 1975. Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.Shepard, Paul. Coming Home to the Pleistocene. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1998.Sieden, Lloyd Steven. Buckminster Fuller’s Universe: His Life and Work. New York: Basic Books, 2000.Simonton, Dean Keith. Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.Solomon, Maynard. Mozart: A Life. New York: Harper Perennial, 1996.

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Steiner, Rudolf. Nature’s Open Secret: Introductions to Goethe’s Scientific Writings. Trans. John Barnes and Mado Spiegler. Great Barrington, MA: Anthroposophic Press, 2000.Sternberg, Robert J. Beyond I.Q.: A Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence. Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1985. Storr, Anthony. Music and the Mind. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.  Storr, Anthony. The Dynamics of Creation. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.Suzuki, Daisetz T. Zen and Japanese Culture. New York: Pantheon Books, 1959. Tobin, James. To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight. New York: Free Press, 2003. Twombley, Robert C. Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture. New York: Wiley, 1979.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, and Johann Peter Eckermann. Conversations of Goethe. Trans. John Oxenford. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1998.Von Sternberg, Josef. Fun in a Chinese Laundry. San Francisco, CA: Mercury House, 1988.Waldrop, M. Mitchell. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos.New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1992.Watts, Steven. The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century. New York: Vintage Books, 2006.Weisberg, Robert W. Creativity: Beyond the Myth of Genius. New York: W H Freeman & Co, 1993. Wilson, Colin. Super Consciousness: The Quest for the Peak Experience. London, UK: 2009.Wilson, Colin. The Occult. New York: Random House, 1971.

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Wilson, Elizabeth. Rostropovich: The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher and Legend. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. Zen Master Hakuin. The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin. Trans. Norman Waddell. New York: Shambhala, 1994. Zenji, Hakuin. Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin. Trans. Norman Waddell. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2001.

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What did Charles Darwin, middling schoolboy and

underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were the similar choices made by Mozart and by Caesar Rodriguez, the U.S. Air Force’s last ace fighter pilot? In Mastery, Robert Greene’s fifth book, he mines the biographies of great historical figures for clues about gaining control over our own lives and destinies. Picking up where The 48 Laws of Power left off, Greene culls years of research and original interviews to blend historical anecdote and psychological insight, distilling the universal ingredients of the world’s masters.

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