Download or read book Mastery written by George Leonard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Zen philosophy and his expertise in the martial art of aikido, bestselling author George Leonard shows how the process of mastery can help us attain a higher level of excellence and a deeper sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in our daily lives. Whether you're seeking to improve your career or your intimate relationships, increase self-esteem or create harmony within yourself, this inspiring prescriptive guide will help you master anything you choose and achieve success in all areas of your life. In Mastery, you'll discover: • The 5 Essential Keys to Mastery • Tools for Mastery • How to Master Your Athletic Potential • The 3 Personality Types That Are Obstacles to Mastery • How to Avoid Pitfalls Along the Path • and more...

Download or read book The Pragmatic Programmer written by David Thomas and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most significant books in my life.” –Obie Fernandez, Author, The Rails Way “Twenty years ago, the first edition of The Pragmatic Programmer completely changed the trajectory of my career. This new edition could do the same for yours.” –Mike Cohn, Author of Succeeding with Agile , Agile Estimating and Planning , and User Stories Applied “. . . filled with practical advice, both technical and professional, that will serve you and your projects well for years to come.” –Andrea Goulet, CEO, Corgibytes, Founder, LegacyCode.Rocks “. . . lightning does strike twice, and this book is proof.” –VM (Vicky) Brasseur, Director of Open Source Strategy, Juniper Networks The Pragmatic Programmer is one of those rare tech books you’ll read, re-read, and read again over the years. Whether you’re new to the field or an experienced practitioner, you’ll come away with fresh insights each and every time. Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development, independent of any particular language, framework, or methodology, and the Pragmatic philosophy has spawned hundreds of books, screencasts, and audio books, as well as thousands of careers and success stories. Now, twenty years later, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. Read this book, and you’ll learn how to: Fight software rot Learn continuously Avoid the trap of duplicating knowledge Write flexible, dynamic, and adaptable code Harness the power of basic tools Avoid programming by coincidence Learn real requirements Solve the underlying problems of concurrent code Guard against security vulnerabilities Build teams of Pragmatic Programmers Take responsibility for your work and career Test ruthlessly and effectively, including property-based testing Implement the Pragmatic Starter Kit Delight your users Written as a series of self-contained sections and filled with classic and fresh anecdotes, thoughtful examples, and interesting analogies, The Pragmatic Programmer illustrates the best approaches and major pitfalls of many different aspects of software development. Whether you’re a new coder, an experienced programmer, or a manager responsible for software projects, use these lessons daily, and you’ll quickly see improvements in personal productivity, accuracy, and job satisfaction. You’ll learn skills and develop habits and attitudes that form the foundation for long-term success in your career. You’ll become a Pragmatic Programmer. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Download or read book Awakening Your Inner Master The Journey of Self Mastery written by Princeton Clark and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In AWAKENING YOUR INNER MASTER, Princeton Clark takes us on a journey of his own self-mastery. He shares many great lessons that evolved his life after a host of extreme tests, and a failed suicide attempt that led to his evolutionary awakening. He reveals how no matter where you are, or where you have been, you have the ability to master your life. All that you need is already within you. As Princeton guides us, and he illustratively paints pictures that give us a clear understanding of the journey of self-mastery. He shows us how to return to the root of our power and how to manifest everything that is in us to bring forth. As we go back to the foundation of what we are, we AWAKEN our inner masters...** Bonus: Journal Included

Download or read book Journey to Mastery written by Kathryn Mickle and published by Frederick Fell Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a unique and holistic approach to Feng Shui, applying its ancient principles to every facet of our lives.

Download or read book The Pragmatic Programmer written by Andrew Hunt and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1999-10-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What others in the trenches say about The Pragmatic Programmer... “The cool thing about this book is that it’s great for keeping the programming process fresh. The book helps you to continue to grow and clearly comes from people who have been there.” — Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change “I found this book to be a great mix of solid advice and wonderful analogies!” — Martin Fowler, author of Refactoring and UML Distilled “I would buy a copy, read it twice, then tell all my colleagues to run out and grab a copy. This is a book I would never loan because I would worry about it being lost.” — Kevin Ruland, Management Science, MSG-Logistics “The wisdom and practical experience of the authors is obvious. The topics presented are relevant and useful.... By far its greatest strength for me has been the outstanding analogies—tracer bullets, broken windows, and the fabulous helicopter-based explanation of the need for orthogonality, especially in a crisis situation. I have little doubt that this book will eventually become an excellent source of useful information for journeymen programmers and expert mentors alike.” — John Lakos, author of Large-Scale C++ Software Design “This is the sort of book I will buy a dozen copies of when it comes out so I can give it to my clients.” — Eric Vought, Software Engineer “Most modern books on software development fail to cover the basics of what makes a great software developer, instead spending their time on syntax or technology where in reality the greatest leverage possible for any software team is in having talented developers who really know their craft well. An excellent book.” — Pete McBreen, Independent Consultant “Since reading this book, I have implemented many of the practical suggestions and tips it contains. Across the board, they have saved my company time and money while helping me get my job done quicker! This should be a desktop reference for everyone who works with code for a living.” — Jared Richardson, Senior Software Developer, iRenaissance, Inc. “I would like to see this issued to every new employee at my company....” — Chris Cleeland, Senior Software Engineer, Object Computing, Inc. “If I’m putting together a project, it’s the authors of this book that I want. . . . And failing that I’d settle for people who’ve read their book.” — Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users. It covers topics ranging from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. Read this book, and you'll learn how to Fight software rot; Avoid the trap of duplicating knowledge; Write flexible, dynamic, and adaptable code; Avoid programming by coincidence; Bullet-proof your code with contracts, assertions, and exceptions; Capture real requirements; Test ruthlessly and effectively; Delight your users; Build teams of pragmatic programmers; and Make your developments more precise with automation. Written as a series of self-contained sections and filled with entertaining anecdotes, thoughtful examples, and interesting analogies, The Pragmatic Programmer illustrates the best practices and major pitfalls of many different aspects of software development. Whether you're a new coder, an experienced programmer, or a manager responsible for software projects, use these lessons daily, and you'll quickly see improvements in personal productivity, accuracy, and job satisfaction. You'll learn skills and develop habits and attitudes that form the foundation for long-term success in your career. You'll become a Pragmatic Programmer.

Download or read book CEO Mastery Journey written by Sudhir Chadalavada and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CEO Mastery Journey is packed with insightful nuggets of practical wisdom and breakthrough practices for achieving personal and organizational effectiveness, bringing the principles of self-actualization to business leadership. The result: a purposeful, high-performance and high-trust organization.

Download or read book Soul Mastery written by Susann Taylor Shier and published by Susann Shier - Soul Mastery. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul Mastery: Accessing the Gifts of Your Soul gives you direct contact with your Soul Family and its heritage. This very real and practical knowledge opens your heart to your deepest nature and purpose. Experience a sacred reunion with your Soul, and a positive, profound, and joyful knowing of your true essence and gifts. Truly understand yourself and others from the viewpoint of Soul heritage. Discover the majesty of your Soul and be filled with joy at what you see. Come home to the gifts of your Soul. When I heard from Susann where my soul was birthed, trained and given life it felt like a home coming. It felt as if someone deep inside of me said, "Yes, it is okay to be you " Rev. Deborah Hogan Susann is one of those rare people who not only teaches at the level of mastery but lives it by engaging with the ebb and flow of life moment to moment. Greg Cortopassi, President of Launch Your Dreams, LLC Through working with Susann and the gifts of wisdom within the covers of this book we find ourselves becoming the presence of our own divine Essence, which we have been desiring to know since the beginning of our awakening in this lifetime. Dr. Robert Sampson, M. D. and Patricia Hughes, BSN, Co-founders of Evolutionary Medicine, Co-authors of Breaking Out of Environmental Illness Susann Taylor Shier, CHT works as a Psychotherapist for the heart and Soul and Intuitive Counselor for clients around the country. She has been working in the healing field for over 30 years. She works in person and over the telephone extensively. She travels to facilitate Soul Mastery trainings and workshops across the USA.

Download or read book The Journey to Self Mastery written by Evel Meckarov and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 Life-changing, action oriented insights for your professional life and beyond by Evel Meckarov. A professional PMP certified Senior Project/Program and Portfolio Manager with IBM as well as a Senior IBM certified master educator having taught hundreds of workshops to over 3000 people over the years.One of the most powerful tools I have discovered in my life is the power of self-reflection. By self-reflecting on certain aspects of my professional and personal life during certain times since 2012 I have gained much needed clarity and understanding on the many areas of our modern age that present a challenge to most people I have met.Using my skills of a master educator, I have compiled those insights into concise and powerful chapters with a clear action plan you can take shall you wish to improve those aspects of your professional and personal life as well.

Download or read book Mastery written by Robert Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature, a vital work revealing that the secret to mastery is already within you. Each one of us has within us the potential to be a Master. Learn the secrets of the field you have chosen, submit to a rigorous apprenticeship, absorb the hidden knowledge possessed by those with years of experience, surge past competitors to surpass them in brilliance, and explode established patterns from within. Study the behaviors of Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Leonardo da Vinci and the nine contemporary Masters interviewed for this book. The bestseller author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, and The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene has spent a lifetime studying the laws of power. Now, he shares the secret path to greatness. With this seminal text as a guide, readers will learn how to unlock the passion within and become masters.

Download or read book A Degree of Mastery written by Annie Tremmel Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning the craft and secrets of a master book-binder

Download or read book The Road to Mastery written by Greg Widmar and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people are unsure of how to start riding a motorcycle. They're confused as to where to begin, how to pick out a bike, and what to focus on when they do. When it comes to learning how to ride, the smart path to take is clouded by misinformation, bad advice, and myths. The Road to Mastery is an easy-to-read and easy-to-follow road map for anyone wishing to get into motorcycling the right way and grow within the sport. Anyone new to motorcycle riding or getting back into it after taking a break for years would be wise to read this book and use it as a reference.

Download or read book DevOps for the Modern Enterprise written by Mirco Hering and published by IT Revolution. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many organizations are facing the uphill battle of modernizing their legacy IT infrastructure. Most have evolved over the years by taking lessons from traditional or legacy manufacturing: creating a production process that puts the emphasis on the process instead of the people performing the tasks, allowing the organization to treat people like resources to try to achieve high-quality outcomes. But those practices and ideas are failing modern IT, where collaboration and creativeness are required to achieve high-performing, high-quality success. Mirco Hering, a thought leader in managing IT within legacy organizations, lays out a roadmap to success for IT managers, showing them how to create the right ecosystem, how to empower people to bring their best to work every day, and how to put the right technology in the driver's seat to propel their organization to success. But just having the right methods and tools will not magically transform an organization; the cultural change that is the hardest is also the most impactful. Using principles from Agile, Lean, and DevOps as well as first-hand examples from the enterprise world, Hering addresses the different challenges that legacy organizations face as they transform into modern IT departments.

Download or read book Mastery of Awareness written by Doña Bernadette Vigil and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Doña Bernadette Vigil, the working partner of don Miguel Ruiz and a fully initiated Nagual woman, reveals the authentic tradition of Toltec self-mastery. • Includes exercises from the ancient spiritual path that take the practitioner from Jaguar Knight and Eagle Knight through Nagual Master. • Provides a program of 11 Agreements for continuing the spiritual journey. The Toltec people of ancient Mexico possessed powerful knowledge, passed down secretly through generations of Naguals, that enabled them to achieve a remarkable psychic and spiritual balance. These spiritual warriors learned to discipline their thoughts and emotions, channeling their energy into unconditional love for themselves and others and transforming their world in the process. With the understanding of one who has walked the path, dona Bernadette Vigil--a full Nagual, or shaman, in the Toltec tradition--guides readers through the effective training techniques practiced by Toltec warriors for centuries. By following the practices of the spiritual warrior, readers will experience the amazing sense of peace and contentment that comes from finally breaking free from layers of self-limiting thoughts and fulfilling their true potential as human beings. More than a handbook for personal change, Mastery of Awareness challenges readers to transform the collective dream of the planet.

Download or read book Mastery s End written by Jeffrey Gray and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on lyric poetry, Mastery's End looks at important, yet neglected, issues of subjectivity in post-World War II travel literature. Jeffrey Gray departs from related studies in two regards: nearly all recent scholarly books on the literature of travel have dealt with pre-twentieth-century periods, and all are concerned with narrative genres. Gray questions whether the postcolonial theoretical model of travel as mastery, hegemony, and exploitation still applies. In its place he suggests a model of vulnerability, incoherence, and disorientation to reflect the modern destabilizing nature of travel, a process that began with the unprecedented movement of people during and after World War II and has not abated since. What the contemporary discourse concerning displacement, border crossing, and identity needs, says Gray, is a study of that literary genre with the least investment in closure and the least fidelity to ethnic and national continuities. His concern is not only with the psychological challenges to identity but also with travel as a mode of understanding and composition. Following a summary of American critical perspectives on travel from Emerson to the present, Gray discusses how travel, by nature, defamiliarizes and induces heightened awareness. Such phenomena, Gray says, correspond to the tenets of modern poetics: traversing territories, immersing the self in new object worlds, reconstituting the known as unknown. He then devotes a chapter each to four of the past half-century's most celebrated English-speaking, western poets: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ashbery, and Derek Walcott. Finally, two multi-poet chapters examine the travel poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Robert Creeley, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey and others.

Download or read book Expert written by Roger Kneebone and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Roger Kneebone is a legend' Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters 'Fascinating and inspiring' Financial Times 'The pandemic has made the necessity of relying on experts evident to all . . . this is a rich exploration of lifelong learning' Guardian What could a lacemaker have in common with vascular surgeons? A Savile Row tailor with molecular scientists? A fighter pilot with jazz musicians? At first glance, very little. But Roger Kneebone is the expert on experts, having spent a lifetime finding the connections. In Expert, he combines his own experiences as a doctor with insights from extraordinary people and cutting-edge research to map out the path we're all following - from 'doing time' as an Apprentice, to developing your 'voice' and taking on responsibility as a Journeyman, to finally becoming a Master and passing on your skills. As Kneebone shows, although each outcome is different, the journey is always the same. Whether you're developing a new career, studying a language, learning a musical instrument or simply becoming the person you want to be, this ground-breaking book reveals the path to mastery.

Download or read book Journey to the Heart of God Mystical Keys to Immortal Mastery written by Almine and published by Almine. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful relevations contained in this book emerged from a period during which the author experienced a transfiguration, entering the presence of the Infinite for the second time since moving into God-consciousness in 2000.

Download or read book Micromastery written by Robert Twigger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to be a lifelong learner? Think small. Forget spending 10,000 hours in the pursuit of perfecting just one thing. The true path to success and achievement lies in the pursuit of perfecting lots and lots of small things--for a big payoff. Combining positive psychology, neuroscience, self-help and more, this delightfully illuminating book encourages us to circumvent all the reasons we "can't" learn and grow (we're too busy, it's too complicated, we're not experts, we didn't start when we were young) -- by tackling small, satisfying skills. Wish you were a seasoned chef? Learn to make a perfect omelette. Dream of being a racecar driver? Perfect a handbrake turn. Wish you could draw? Make Zen circles your first challenge. These small, doable tasks offer a big payoff -- and motivate us to keep learning and growing, with payoffs that include a boost in optimism, confidence, memory, cognitive skills, and more. Filled with surprising insights and even a compendium of micromastery skills to try yourself, this engaging and inspiring guide reminds us of the simple joy of learning -- and opens the door to limitless, lifelong achievement, one small step at a time. Micromasteries presented in the book (with illustrations) include: Learn How to Climb a Rope, Surf Standing Up, Talk for Fifteen Minutes about Any Subject, Bake Artisan Bread, Juggle Four Balls, Learn to Read Japanese in Three Hours, and more.