10,000 HOURS TO MASTERY
Master Prophet E. Bernard Jordan
LESSON 5
THE DOMAINS OF MASTERY
“On this earth, one pays dearly for every kind
of mastery…for having a specialty one pays by
also being the victim of this specialty. But you
would have it otherwise -- cheaper and fairer and
above all more comfortable…”
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
HOURS OF WORK PRODUCE CHANGE
• Despite all the faces and stages of mastery, the
endless hours of work produce changes in the
seeker.
• These changes transcend education.
• Formal education can actually inhibit the
development of mastery, because it stifles daring,
dangerous thinking.
• As a child, Jean-Francois Champollion learned
that no one could read Egyptian writing and
determined that he would be the one to do so.
• By age 16, he had learned all the known ancient
languages on his own.
HOURS OF WORK PRODUCE CHANGE
(con’t)
• By the early 1800s, he was eager to work with
scholars who were attempting to translate the
hieroglyphs with the help of the Rosetta Stone.
• Though they turned him down, he doggedly
pursued his passion on his own and at age 30,
had a sudden breakthrough.
• While studying the name of a Pharaoh copied
from a temple wall, he discovered that the
characters were not just related to meaning, but
also to sounds.
HOURS OF WORK PRODUCE CHANGE
(con’t)
• Champollion made these leaps without formal
education in hieroglyphic writing.
• His dogged and passionate study had changed
his brain and his Mind.
• He made himself a scholar.
3 DOMAINS OF MASTERY
• Scholarship, physical training, spiritual discipline
produce transformation in the three domains of
mastery: Body, Mind and Spirit
• Body: With time, muscles become stronger,
reflexes sharper, cellular memory more acute .
• Laborious movements become fluid and natural.
• Sandy Koufax: the Hall of Fame pitcher had
incredible raw talent but no control.
• Only when he taught his body to harness and
control that talent—to develop precision—did he
become the most dominant pitcher in history.
3 DOMAINS OF MASTERY (CON’T)
• Mastery is the development of precision!
• No wasted movement, no wasted energy.
• There is a reason the Law of the Conservation of
Energy is a fundamental law of nature.
• Mind: Changes in mind overlap with body.
• Thought becomes swifter and sharper.
• Secrets about the new skill that seemed arcane
and mysterious become clear.
• Thought speeds up as your brain becomes a fine
instrument.
3 DOMAINS OF MASTERY (CON’T)
• As Daniel Pink points out in A Whole New Mind,
repetitive training actually changes the brain so
that one side becomes dominant, depending on
the nature of the skill.
• Left brain: linear, analytical, rational, logical.
Mathematics, engineering, law, science.
• Right brain: creative, intuitive, emotional, leaps
of insight. Art, music, drama, poetry, invention,
entrepreneurship.
• Mastery is also the full realization of one’s
dominant brain hemisphere—left or right!
3 DOMAINS OF MASTERY (CON’T)
• Spirit: Leaps of understanding and insight take
place.
• New awareness about mastery comes not
through reason but through intuition and
revelation.
• One becomes connected through one’s growing
mastery to the Oneness that underlies the
Cosmos.
• Changes in spirit are the last changes to take
place, because they can only come when the
body and mind are not consumed with simply
mastering repetitive movements and thoughts.
3 DOMAINS OF MASTERY (CON’T)
• When body and mind are free to create, then the
Spirit is freed to soar to revelation, invention and
connection.
• Mastery is the freeing of the Spirit to wield as
much influence over the self as the body and
mind do.
• It is trusting the Spirit as a guide and compass.
• In the end, after 10,000 hours, the full being
should be transformed into something unlike what
it was when the learning began.
BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT
• Body: More finely tuned for its ultimate purpose.
• This may mean greater strength or stamina, but it
may also mean greater precision.
• Mind: Purer focus and swift perception in the area
of knowledge.
• After 10,000 hours, the student becomes both
genius and newborn seeker.
• Spirit: Fully centered in your Divine purpose.
• The spiritual transformation of mastery takes you
to the heart of what you were meant to do, your
passion.
BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT
• Passion: the word literally means “suffering.”
• When you follow your passion, you suffer to reach
your ultimate objective.
• The Passion of Christ.
• The work, sweat and sacrifice of mastery are
passion on display.
• There is no other path to heaven, as there was no
other path for Jesus but the one he trod.
10,000 HOURS TO MASTERY
Master Prophet E. Bernard Jordan
LESSON 5
THE DOMAINS OF MASTERY