10 Ideas That Will Rapidly Accelerate Your Skill Development

I use these ideas every day.

Photo by Walo Jay

In the time that I have been doing Jiu-Jitsu, my approach to training and improving has changed a lot.

First, like every beginner, I was clueless.

Then, in the early days of my career, I was very results-oriented and obsessed with winning — even in practice. Then, beginning around 2022, I was very experience-oriented. It was my pushback to my former self being so results-obsessed.

Nowadays, I’m more process and skill-oriented in my approach. The mindset and approach that I have to training (and building other skills in my life as well) has become oriented around processes and systems.

The goal is not to win everything all the time (although I’ll never stop trying), the goal is to always be improving my skills. If I do this, I believe I will reach the highest levels.

Here are 10 principles that help me stay focused on improving my skills day after day.

Quantity to quality, then quality over quantity.

Last year, I competed 14 times in Jiu-Jitsu in 9 different rulesets.

This year, by the end of it, I’ll have only competed 7 times. However, my performances this year…