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1# Deconstruct the skill
Deconstructing the talent into its most essential, elementary parts is the first step.
This is in reference to the popularized Pareto's Principle, where the goal is to generate 80 percent of results by putting in 20 percent of the effort.
Our goal then should be to separate the 20 percent of our learning materials that will give us 80 percent of the result.
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2# Repeat, repeat, repeat
This is the part where most of us struggle, and what many of us don't want to hear.
Practice is the secret to learning anything more quickly.
It requires frequency and persistence of performing the same skill over and over again, until you can do it subconsciously, without having to...
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3# Seek immediate feedback
The Beatles visited Hamburg, Germany in 1960 while they were still an unheard-of high school rock band and played at the local bars.
The group was underpaid. The acoustics were terrible. The audiences were unappreciative. So, what did the Beatles get out of the Hamburg experience?
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4# Go long
Unfortunately, many of us give up before or during what Seth Godin calls, "the Dip."
Godin describes that although it's important to know when to quit, many potential winners don't reach success because they quit before the dip.
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Deconstruct the skill
...into its basic, fundamental components, to find the most important things to practice first. This shows that very few things actually make a difference in any aspect of our lives, including learning.
Use the Pareto Principle: which describes a goal of generating 80 percent...
Deconstruct the Skill
- Break the skill into various small parts, remembering that every big skill is a collection of many sub-skills.
- Identify the essential sub-skills needed to give you the maximum advantage.
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Forget the Small Stuff
Pareto's 80/20 rule states that in any particular pursuit that we undertake, approximately 80 percent of the results may come from just 20 percent of our efforts.
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