Applied rationality holds out the promise that self-mastery is possible, and that you can control how life unfolds.
What drives many creators of computer music is the desire to have total mastery over how a piece of music sounds.
Sam Weber, Derick Grant and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards certainly qualify as the masters promised in the program's title, and one sign of their mastery was how their number — largely composed of all three dancers improvising at once — made any sense at all.
Faced with such an exhibition of mental agility and technical brilliance, it's hard to imagine how mastery of the instrument can be taken any further.
The intricacies of war suit Faulks's love of research and his mastery of it – how to layer and find ornament in it, what German tanks to mention, what level of ignorance to assume on the part of his reader.
Even so, the result demands a patient viewing, and maybe more than one; only after a second dose did I get the measure of Garrone's mastery, and realize how far he has surpassed, not merely honored, the author's courageous toil.
Greene is accustomed to defending his first book, but I suspect he's trying to move beyond it with his latest, Mastery, which studies how talent is developed, using a heavily researched slew of examples including Einstein, Darwin, Goethe and John Coltrane.
We then explain how mastery measurement and curriculum-based measurement, an alternative form of progress monitoring, differ.
Julie Deane is a case study in how mastery of the internet and social media can now allow you to create a global business in double quick time - so much so that Google used her story in an advert for its Chrome browser.
The question mark, which most likely is really not that big of a question, is how Mastery will do going two turns for the first time.
