Follow this general mastery build.
There was some truth to the refrain, but as Kishore Mahbubani, a longtime Singaporean diplomat, explained in his 2008 book, "The New Asian Hemisphere," most of Lee's development program consisted of mimicking what he saw as the best practices of the West: competitive markets, meritocracy, pragmatism, the rule of law, universal public education, and a mastery of science and technology.
Furthermore, mastery of standard Mandarin Chinese is by no means universal among Chinese and more than one layer of translation is sometimes needed to converse in one of China's hundreds of dialects or languages (think of this scene from the movie Hot Fuzz plus one extra layer of translation).
Siodmak brought with him a mastery of the shadowy lighting and spatial complexity of Weimar-era filmmaking, and at Universal he found a talented collaborator in Woody Bredell, a cinematographer with a gift for extreme contrasts of light and darkness.
This endeavor is never once critical of Jobs, even if it shows him being an asshole (mostly by always parking in the handicap spot, as if this inconsequence is the universal sign of complete jerkitude) it shows that everyone who opposes him is wrong and crass and the mastery of Jobs' vision will eradicate all of his personal shortcomings.
Étienne Gilson, for instance, has observed that where Plato locates the center of reality in ideas with concrete instantiations of these being merely accidental, and Aristotle places emphasis not on numerical individuals but on the universal specific form, Thomas Aquinas saw the individual person as unique among beings because of reason and self-mastery.
Some mastery, some inaction!
I experienced his mastery.
With mastery came boredom.
