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George Leonard

co-founder of Integral Transformative Practice

George Leonard, co-founder of Integral Transformative Practice and a pioneer in the field of human potentialities, is author of twelve books, including The Transformation, Education and Ecstasy, The Silent Pulse, the Ultimate Athlete and Mastery. During his seventeen years as senior editor for Look Magazine, he covered the Civil Rights Movement, politics, foreign affairs and social change, while winning an unprecedented number of national awards for education writing. Later, he produced annual Ultimate Fitness sections for Esquire as well as numerous articles on a wide variety of subjects in such magazines as Esquire, Harper’s, The Atlantic, New York, Saturday Review and The Nation. George Leonard holds a fifth-degree black belt in aikido and is co-founder of a martial arts school. He is founder of Leonard Energy Training (LET), a transformative practice inspired by aikido, which he has introduced to some 50,000 people in the U.S. and abroad.

Philosopher's Notes on George Leonard's Books

Mastery
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Mastery

by George Leonard

Mastery. Are you a dabbler or a hacker or an obsessive or a master? We all have elements of each and we tend to fall into particular patterns in our lives. In this Note, we'll explore George Leonard’s brilliant ideas on how to live a life of mastery, in which every moment becomes an opportunity for growth and self-expression as we embrace the practice of living masterfully.