which is the best book on success

[Harikrishnan]

8 hours ago, Ramanujan said:

@Jacob Morres i have trouble choosing between success principles and mastery. What do I do

 

Which is better

 

Mastery is best. Then success principle.

[Jacob Morres]

@Ramanujan i dont choose, they are both part of my theory. Both have great ideas. 

Mastery i like:

10,000h rule + general direction to mastery for success 

Deliberate practice 

Finding love and passion in growth and nuance

Success principles i like:

Visualization, surrounding yourself with successful people, developing incredible self belief, developing focus on one endeavor 

[hyruga]

Peter Ralston has a book called The Art of Mastery which is amazing as well (but harder to understand)

[Cireeric]

14 hours ago, Ramanujan said:

@Jacob Morres i have trouble choosing between success principles and mastery. What do I do

Dude you can read both in 2 weeks, work to incorporate what seems valuable for you in your life and go on. 

[Hasson_Miah]

Think and Grow rich. 

 

Not for the money aspect, read the book for the esoteric aspect.

[Ramanujan]

@Jacob Morres how do I mix mastery and success principles

At many places, those 2 books contradict each other

Edited 4 hours ago by Ramanujan

[Ramanujan]

On 09/03/2026 at 10:47 PM, Harikrishnan said:

Mastery is best. Then success principle.

I am not sure whether mastery is the best. Only leo recommend mastery. All the legends who are experts on success, never mention mastery. You never hear them recommending mastery. Leo is not an expert on success

 

 

Idk man. I am doubting myself. Idk how much benificial mastery really is

[Ramanujan]

It's hard to trust leo on some things

 

Where does he get the idea that "mastery is the greatest self improvement book of all time"

 

 

 

Poor old me believed in this shit. Now I am in a good place and is skeptical of some of his takes and ideas. Leo is not a special or unique snow flake. He make mistakes. He is a human with fantastic marketing. 

 

 

 

[Ramanujan]

On 10/03/2026 at 4:37 AM, hyruga said:

Peter Ralston has a book called The Art of Mastery which is amazing as well (but harder to understand)

How good is it. Is it as good as mastery

Edited 3 hours ago by Ramanujan

[Jacob Morres]

@Ramanujan what does mastery mean to you though? to me it means just putting a lot of time into a craft before being able to reap the rewards. like putting 10-20k hours into a career to get good fruits for example

and there are a few good tactics in the book that you can use for that

Edited 3 hours ago by Jacob Morres

[Ramanujan]

2 minutes ago, Jacob Morres said:

@Ramanujan what does mastery mean to you though? to me it means just putting a lot of time into a craft before being able to reap the rewards. like putting 10-20k hours into a career to get good fruits for example

For me mastery means

 

There are a lot of principles in the book mastery by George leoanrd. Those principles are mentioned here and there . Each chapter has a lot of principles. 50-100+ principles. I need to live my life based on those principles

 

 

Since mastery has 50+ principles, and I wanna live by it, it's hard to live by another system. It's hard to add principles from another book on top of it. As I am already living by 50+ principles from mastery

 

 

So I find it hard to add success principles on top of mastery. Also the principles in mastery and success principles contradict each other