The Subtle Art of Becoming An Expert At Anything
Anything means anything. Anything you could imagine.
What’s your procedure to learn anything?
In order to learn anything (art/craft/skills), it takes time. There are no shortcuts to learn anything.
For instance, if you want to be an expert in writing, to become a good writer it will take years of years of practice, consistency, and patience to become a world-class writer. The same principles apply for everything.
when you are going to learn something new there are some steps that you don’t notice or forget to notice about, thus that costs you 2x time to learn the skill.
In this post, I'm going to share with you 3 steps magical formula to learn anything. Although some of you knew this before, if you don’t know this, just read and apply these steps and you will notice some drastic changes in your learning speed.
I will take the example of WRITING for better understanding.
So without further ado let's start with the point —
Steps 1: Learn
This is your first stage where you learn every basic part of your craft/skill.
Of course, if you learn something new it takes you so much time and effort. Without learning and practicing the skill, you can’t progress in the craft, or either if you don't start learning you won’t be better at it.
Examples — Let's say you’re a complete newbie in the writing, you don’t know anything about writing, like what is a headline, and headline types — H1, H2, H3, Body text, draft, word count, subhead, formating, intro, nothing else.
But as soon as you will start to learn writing, you will get better at writing, and the time will come when every new fellow writer will call you — “Pro Writer”
The more you learn the better you become at writing. Simultaneously will make mistakes.
Step 2: Make Mistakes
Yes guys, make mistakes, of course, you will going to make mistakes because you’re not an expert in the skills. (assuming as a beginner)
So it's nothing to worry about mistakes. Even if you don't want to make mistakes, you will make them ( unwillingly, unnoticeably) because it's a natural disaster.
Making Mistakes Is A Good Sign Of Progressing.
Example — Let's say you were making a headline with the character limit of 100+ in your beginning stage, but once you know those 100-characters are too bad to rank on the google search engine. now you will make your headline with 60 characters or less.
As you start learning and practicing to write, no doubt there is a 100% chance of you will make mistakes. No one could become a better writer without making mistakes. the same thing will happen to you.
But the most important part is to learn from your mistakes and don't repeat them again.
Step 3: Repeat
No! You don’t have to repeat your mistakes in this step.
There is no further step, no more complicated procedure.
To learn anything — Learn > Make mistakes> Learn From mistakes>Learn> Make mistakes>Learn From Mistakes> and the list goes on….
Identify your mistakes — Learn from your mistakes — and correct those mistakes
Your learning is corrected with your mistakes, and your mistakes are corrected with your learning. If you learn something you will make mistakes and if you make mistakes you will have to learn from them.
If you don’t learn from your mistakes you’re An Asshole.
Although there are so many factors that depend on learning anything, like consistency, focus, patients, and so on. and I agree with that, but these come with the process — learning is a process. Focus or patience Not.
If you truly want to become good at anything or something, apply this 2 steps process and you will see drastic results.
There are also 2 scenarios that could happen—
1 — If you’re learning but you are not making mistakes — then you’re progress will be slow. (I'm not saying making mistakes is compulsory, but making mistakes is the sign of moving)
2 — If you are making mistakes but you’re not learning from your mistakes it — will take you too much time to learn the skill.
Bottom Line
Most people don’t notice that they make the same mistakes over and over again and they find themselves in the trouble.
Why do most people give up learning something they wanted to learn?
Because they make the same mistakes for a very long period of time and they lose their motivation of learning. But if you learn something consistently and make mistakes in the process, means that your progressing, you’re achieving something.
That’s the point most people fail to realize.
Period.
Let me know your learning process. Do you really learn from your mistakes?
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