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Tim Ferriss’ Recipe to Learn Any Skill
How to learn new skills quickly.
Tim Ferriss is known as the king of optimisation and is continuously volunteering himself as a human guinea-pig to test the limits of what’s possible. He devotes himself to the principle that if you approach the world as a student, there are very few limits to what you can achieve.
He has a self-proclaimed goal of mastering the ability to learn new skills quickly. To achieve fast learning of new skills, he developed a method he calls DiSSS(Deconstruction, Selection, Sequencing and Stakes).
Mastering a skill usually requires years of practice. But developing solid fundamentals goes a lot quicker. By practicing intelligently, you can significantly level up your learning rate and take any skill to an impressive level. You will not become a master, but you will quickly learn enough to enjoy the skill and probably impress your friends as well.
Deconstruction
Deconstruction is the process of taking a big and intimidating skill and breaking it into manageable parts. The goal is to find out what elements are most important for performance in a skill. This is done by breaking the skill down into smaller components and then prioritising what to learn based on your particular goals within that skill.
