Last year I wrote a blog post on “The Process of Mastering a Skill”, based on my own experience and advice from my favorite books on the topic.
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1. Apprenticeship
2. The creative/active phase
3. Mastery
Here are some things to keep in mind as you are going through the apprenticeship stage (elaborated in the blog post):
- Don’t focus on status
- Keep expanding your horizons
- Embrace the feeling of inferiority
- Trust the process
- Avoid the easy path
- Embrace failure as a critical part of learning
- Advance through trial and error
If you focus too much on what others think of you, it will make you feel insecure and distract you from learning. Remember: in this stage you are still learning and that’s okay; it doesn’t matter that you’re not an expert yet.
Always assume that you are a beginner and that there’s more to learn. A sense of superiority can make you fragile to criticism and too insecure to seek help or improve.