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Mastery, by George Leonard
Notes and highlights from the book which inspired the Ordinary Mastery project
Jan 16, 2024 • 
John Durrant
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Cognitive Load Theory
Understanding the limits to our mental processing capacity to design more effective systems of learning, practice and working.
May 3, 2023 • 
John Durrant
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Always Have a Project
A container for reflection, experimentation, and momentum
Dec 15, 2023 • 
John Durrant
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Always Have a Project
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Intentionality and Happy Accidents
Putting your mind in your muscles while embracing chaos
Feb 8, 2024 • 
John Durrant
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Intentionality and Happy Accidents
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Consistency is for the Dead
Organism over mechanism - should we strive for consistency, like a mechanised robot, or should we go with the flow?
Aug 2, 2024 • 
John Durrant
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Uber-Practice
A generative and reflective practice, foundational within an ecology of practices.
Jun 26, 2023 • 
John Durrant
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Audacious Aspirations, Low Expectations
Short-term goals as naturally emerging stepping stones to compelling aspirations.
Jan 5, 2024 • 
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Mastering the Art of Sucking at Something
Getting used to embracing the suck with the beginner's mind
May 12, 2023 • 
John Durrant
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A letter to my 75-year-old self
Mastering the passage of time
May 25 • 
John Durrant
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Mastering Disappointment
When our expectations awaken to crude reality. Some thoughts towards approaching the universal experience of disappointment with an attitude of mastery.
Oct 16, 2023 • 
John Durrant
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Rules and Rulelessness
Before setting yourself new rules, ask whether you are kind of person who follows rules
Dec 31, 2023 • 
John Durrant
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Aspirations
Discovering our calling in life and unfolding to our potential
Apr 23, 2023 • 
John Durrant
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