Joe Navarro

All the behaviors that he's doing, which are pacifyings or indicators of some sort of psychological discomfort, are also all the behaviors that we equate with lack of confidence.

All the behaviors that he's doing, which are pacifyings or indicators of some sort of psychological discomfort, are also all the behaviors that we equate with lack of confidence.

Self-mastery, whether it was Alexander the Great who sought the learnings of, let's see, Socrates taught Plato, who taught Aristotle, who, Alexander. So Aristotle taught Alexander the Great, and he pursued the knowledge. Thomas Edison, one of the greatest inventors in America, 1,300 patents. left school at age six, sought the knowledge.

Self-mastery, whether it was Alexander the Great who sought the learnings of, let's see, Socrates taught Plato, who taught Aristotle, who, Alexander. So Aristotle taught Alexander the Great, and he pursued the knowledge. Thomas Edison, one of the greatest inventors in America, 1,300 patents. left school at age six, sought the knowledge.

I mean, as humble as I came from, we were so poor, I literally had to go to garbage cans to steal books and magazines to learn. You can create your own apprenticeship program and you can learn to master a skill or a knowledge or an athletic move, whatever.

I mean, as humble as I came from, we were so poor, I literally had to go to garbage cans to steal books and magazines to learn. You can create your own apprenticeship program and you can learn to master a skill or a knowledge or an athletic move, whatever.

They have accomplished something that nobody can take from them. Nobody can take that from me. What is it? All that knowledge, all that skill, all that experience, nobody can take from me.

They have accomplished something that nobody can take from them. Nobody can take that from me. What is it? All that knowledge, all that skill, all that experience, nobody can take from me.

Because so much of it, nobody, you know, we were talking earlier and I said, I try to read two books a week so that way I can have read about a thousand books every decade. Nobody's telling me to do that. And so it's self. Why? Because I wanted to know. Because, you know, why did Leonardo da Vinci want to know the eddies, water eddies in the water, or the length of a woodpecker's tongue?

Because so much of it, nobody, you know, we were talking earlier and I said, I try to read two books a week so that way I can have read about a thousand books every decade. Nobody's telling me to do that. And so it's self. Why? Because I wanted to know. Because, you know, why did Leonardo da Vinci want to know the eddies, water eddies in the water, or the length of a woodpecker's tongue?

Who cares? It doesn't matter. It was self-imposed, and we in this world are the beneficiaries of Leonardo da Vinci's interest in water eddies, which then helped him to draw hair of the Mona Lisa. We're the beneficiaries of that. I think self-mastery,

Who cares? It doesn't matter. It was self-imposed, and we in this world are the beneficiaries of Leonardo da Vinci's interest in water eddies, which then helped him to draw hair of the Mona Lisa. We're the beneficiaries of that. I think self-mastery,

is more important than uh i think what a university can teach you it can a university can teach you how to think but it doesn't teach you mastery so is this because i'm i'm hearing like obviously learning in the pursuit of knowledge and then there's this other part of self mastery which feels like self-awareness being aware of oneself like Well, I think you're an example of self-mastery.

is more important than uh i think what a university can teach you it can a university can teach you how to think but it doesn't teach you mastery so is this because i'm i'm hearing like obviously learning in the pursuit of knowledge and then there's this other part of self mastery which feels like self-awareness being aware of oneself like Well, I think you're an example of self-mastery.

It's the only word in the universe of languages that encapsulates being able to take what is available and making it a part of your life. And so whether it was my grandmother teaching me how to talk to people or my mother or my father, my mother showing me how to actually shake hands, my sister showing me how to dance. This is all part of self mastery. Now I could have rejected all of that.

It's the only word in the universe of languages that encapsulates being able to take what is available and making it a part of your life. And so whether it was my grandmother teaching me how to talk to people or my mother or my father, my mother showing me how to actually shake hands, my sister showing me how to dance. This is all part of self mastery. Now I could have rejected all of that.

And a lot of people do. A lot of people reject science or reject, oh, I don't want to learn how to dance. I don't want to learn to do that.

And a lot of people do. A lot of people reject science or reject, oh, I don't want to learn how to dance. I don't want to learn to do that.

That's your option. But there's an exquisite elegance in being able to look at the world around you and learn from it, which you have done, and say, I'm going to put that to work. Why should I reinvent what other people have experienced? I'm going to adopt that which I like and prefer, and then I'm going to put it to good use. The second one is observation, which I think we've talked about.

That's your option. But there's an exquisite elegance in being able to look at the world around you and learn from it, which you have done, and say, I'm going to put that to work. Why should I reinvent what other people have experienced? I'm going to adopt that which I like and prefer, and then I'm going to put it to good use. The second one is observation, which I think we've talked about.