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Cultivating a growth mindset and embracing challenges
Developing adaptive thinking and problem-solving skills
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Choosing your own direction
In school, your teachers worked out a lesson plan and made sure you were aiming in the right direction. When you're teaching yourself, you have to do it yourself.
- Deconstruct and select: Every skill can be broken down into pieces. Find out what are the minimal learnable segments you should start with for success and focus on that first.
- Find a mentor: If you're unfamiliar with a skill, you may not know what is worth learning from the start. Find a mentor to help you.
- Stop learning and start doing: Once you know the basics, put them into practice wherever you can.
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Not all practice is created equally
To make it count, practice deliberately. Focus on specific elements and work on them until they improve.
Don't go all out, dedicating every waking moment to your new passion. Pace yourself. You will not only avoid burnout by spreading out your training, bu...
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“One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly.”
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Improvement with learning
From the moment we are born, we are always learning new skills. We see it in formal capacities in school or on the job, and informally, like learning from you buddy how to grill a steak.
However, learning is a skill that we can improve upon. The growing number of self-taug...
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Questions to ask a mentor
To save the time of both of you, consider asking your mentor these questions:
- Thinking back to when you were just getting started, what parts of your skill were the most frustrating to learn?
- Which of those do you use on a daily/weekly basis, and which have you forgotten?
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Tighten feedback loops
Feedback is vitally important to evaluate how well you're doing and to identify areas for improvement. Faster feedback is always better.
- Share work publicly: Even if it feels scary, sharing your work is essential for improvement.
- Be very specific:
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Stick to your practice
You could follow all the advice, but if you give up after two days, you won't make progress.
- Make a plan: When exactly are you going to practice?
- Tell others about it…maybe: State your goal as a commitment rather than moving towards the fini...
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Select your skill carefully
Be very selective in the skill you're trying to masker to avoid sabotaging your success:
- Make sure it's applicable: The perfect skill either solves a problem you have or scratches an itch you have.
- Be very specific: Specific goals are easier...
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