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Develop The Mindset of A Master to Become One
How to efficiently enter the path to mastery.
Becoming a master is something we all dream of. But we don’t always realise what it takes to get there. When our idols perform a skill, it seems almost magical and impossible to achieve something similar.
Behind every outstanding performance lies thousands of hours of hard work. Whether it’s singing like Rihanna, throwing a football like Tom Brady or swinging a racket like Rafael Nadal.
Every master at their craft has gone through the same process of acquiring a high level of skill performance. What allowed them to get there were some common mindsets. If you develop and follow these mindsets in the craft you’re pursuing, you can potentially also become world-class one day.
Efficiency to get more, not to do less
When you’re trying to improve a skill, two main factors contribute to the result. How much effort you put in and the quality of your practice. You can improve your performance by increasing either of them.
But especially for physical demanding skills, there will be a ceiling. This means putting in more effort will not lead to better results anymore. You will not be able to recover fully between practice sessions, which makes it…
