The Easiest Way to Master a New Skill

Mastery demands that you and I refuse the warm bed on a cold morning of accepting average. To use each day as a platform for practice and getting better at each thing you do is to exploit the power of the tiny triumphs that when done over time morph into exquisite victories.

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If you look at any person who practices a skill over time, they keep practicing the skill to the point where they build a neuro circuit towards that skill in their brain. But here's the point I want to try to make, if you keep on practicing a specific skill versus being a master of many things, if you stay monomaniacally focused on that one skill, painting, business building, chess, playing, cooking, that over time, a fatty substance called myelin will start to wrap around the circuit responsible for that area of practice, whether it's hockey, whether it's chess playing, whether it's cooking. And myelin, neuroscientists are saying, causes that specific neuro circuit responsible for the skill to operate in upgraded way. And this is why Wayne Gretzky, for example, the great hockey player said, I don't skate to where the puck is, I skate to where the puck is going. You see the great artists, the great entrepreneurs, the great humanitarians, the great painters, these people all had what I call advanced perception, but their advanced perception was not a genetic gift. And I've been saying this for year after year after year. Their advanced perception, their otherworldly ability to see possibility that no one else could see was not some blessing from the gods of genius denied to the majority. It was just they practiced so much that they set up this neuro circuit and then they kept on practicing while everyone else is just diluting their focus doing too many things and not willing to practice. so these people on the path of mastery got to a place where the myelin or the circuit in the brain was myelinated, which you can do and I can do if we stay focused and practiced for many years. And that allowed them to achieve their mastery.