Are you dabble for a bit, get frustrated or distracted, then do something else. Then you need the type of practice that results in rapid skill acquisition is deliberate practice: focused, intelligent effort that attempts to improve the most critical parts of the skill in question. No distractions, and no nagging doubts: just the task in front of you. The reason most people don’t acquire new skills very quickly is simple: they don’t spend much time in deliberate practice.
If you can set aside the time to practice whatever you want to learn for at least 20 hours, and you sit down and focus on the practice, that alone will easily put you in the top 1% of the human population in terms of knowledge, skill, and experience. Your brain is a system built to learn: that’s what brains do. Practice and your skills will improve extremely quickly. Make the time, and do the work.
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too."
Sit down, take out your calendar, and do the math. When are you going to practice? What are you going to give up or reschedule to make the time? If you “don’t have time,” or aren’t willing to accept the necessary tradeoffs to make the time, I have news for you: you don’t really care very much about acquiring that particular skill, and as a result, practice will be a constant struggle.
If you’re not willing to commit to at least 20 hours of practice, then drop the project and learn something else. Life is short, on the other hand, if you’re willing to invest at least 20 hours of focused effort, pre-committing to putting in that time is a very effective strategy. once you start, you have to keep going until you either:-
(1) develop the level of skill you want,
or
(2) complete at least 20 hours of practice.
That precommitment is an extremely effective way of completing the frustrating early hours of practice. You can pre-commit to yourself, or tell others about what you’re doing. Add consequences to dropping the practice if you feel you need an extra push: whatever keeps you practising.
Once you break down a large skill into smaller subskills, it makes sense to practice the most important and frequently used subskills first. For example, when learning a language, it’s useful to know that languages follow a power law distribution called “Zipf’s Law” – a small handful of words are used the vast majority of the time. In English, the 25 most common words account for over 33% of usage.
Most skills follow a similar pattern: a few subskills are critical, while the remainder is rarely used or contribute less to the end result. Learn the most important subskills first, and you maximize your overall rate of skill acquisition.
It’s usually not very difficult to identify the most important subskills: just pick up a few books or training resources, and spend an hour or so skimming them. You’ll see the same techniques and methods mentioned over and over again—a strong signal that they’re important to know.
Once you’ve decided what you’re trying to accomplish, it’s in your best interest to jump right in and get your hands dirty as quickly as possible. In the early stages of practising something new, it’s tempting to be conservative. Failing at anything is uncomfortable, so we usually try to protect our egos by attempting things we’re pretty sure we can do.
The trouble with that approach is that it slows your rate of gaining experience with the important elements of the skill. By preserving your pride, you’re diminishing the results you get for your effort.
So if you really wanna and make a difference in this crowd, it's the best time to make it happen then to regret when the time will fly away from your hands. The people who are given an example of is not someone who is different from us it's just that these people use their free time productively or effectively. Its good to read a book or article and get motivated or watch a video and feel like you are gonna achieve big but what makes a huge difference is to be persistent with that motivation and do something right now.
Just sit down and remember what is that you wanna learn and set your schedule accordingly and begin with it.
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