Questions, answered.

A public learning site, a method, and a resource community for people who want to do more thoughtful work, more accountably, with the right people in the room. The method is the Mastery Method — seven pillars: Mindset, Planning, Systems, Alliances, Mastermind Groups, Facilitation, and Analytics. The community supports access to materials, updates, and event invitations when offered; it is not currently a matchmaking or group-placement service.

The public essays and guides are free. You can also request the current ebook or request community access at no charge. There is no paid Mastermind Better offer live today.

Use the community access form. It records your request for the resource space and related updates. It does not place you into a facilitated mastermind group or promise a matching conversation.

No. The site and resource community are self-directed. If you are forming your own working mastermind, a strong starting cadence is 90 minutes every two weeks; the meeting-format guide explains why.

Five blocks across 90 minutes: a 10-minute check-in, 20 minutes of member updates, 40 minutes of hot seat (one member's problem worked on by the whole group), 15 minutes of next-session commitments, and a 5-minute close. The full walkthrough is here. For 60-, 75-, and 120-minute variants, use the copy-ready mastermind agenda templates.

No. The material is useful whether you are joining, forming, or facilitating a group. When you form a working group, comparable commitment matters more than matching job titles or years of experience.

The word "mastermind" has three meanings in this work, and they get conflated. The principle (Napoleon Hill's "master mind") is what happens when two or more minds work on a problem together with a shared aim. The alliance is the structured ongoing form that principle takes between specific people. The group is the format that hosts the alliance — small, scheduled, facilitated. The encyclopedia post unpacks the three senses in detail.

Jeff Hopp. He's been working on the mastermind format since 2017, originally as a SaaS (Mastermind Manager, then Nucleus). When the software chapter closed in 2023, the practice continued — that's what this site is. More background here.

A course teaches you something one-way. A coach works with you one-on-one. A mastermind is neither — it's a group of peers working on each other's actual problems in real time, with the assumption that the room knows things no single facilitator or course author knows. Coaching and courses are complementary, not competitors.

A good group can absorb occasional misses. A pattern of misses is a signal that the format, cadence, or current composition is not working. Name the pattern with the facilitator and group, then reset the agreement or leave cleanly instead of fading out.

Yes. Most members bring a specific project or decision they're working on — a launch, a hire, a pivot, a relationship, a health goal. The group works on that project across sessions as it evolves. The hot seat is specifically designed for "I'm stuck on X" or "I'm about to commit to X and want pressure-testing before I do."

Right here. The Missing Manual for Think and Grow Rich applies Napoleon Hill's principles to modern practice. You can request the current edition for free; the request is separate from community access and does not enroll you in a mastermind group.