Mastery by Robert Greene
Published 2012 · 408 pages · 100,000 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Business & Self-Help, History, Nonfiction, Psychology
How hard is Mastery to read?
Mastery scores 16 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 25 out of 100
- Accessible. Historical and scientific terms.
- Sentence structure: 25 out of 100
- Abstraction: 28 out of 100
- Principles illustrated with biographical examples.
- Information density: 42 out of 100
- Rich with historical detail and analysis.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Biographical case studies organized by theme.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- Mastery as a universal human potential.
- Ironic distance: 80 out of 100
- Earnest, aspirational tone.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Clear framework for achieving mastery.
- Structural complexity: 18 out of 100
- Six chapters following the mastery process.
How Mastery is regarded
Mastery holds a literary regard score of 34 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.