How to Achieve Excellence in Anything | MagicLearning Event

When it comes to becoming a professional in any field, it's a shame to spend a lot of time making the wrong choices or reinventing the wheel. In this event, we will offer you some tips on learning effectively in any field and tell you about our academic writing examples. You'll learn how to choose your business and how it can hurt your ego, why you should break the rules, and more.

Choose wisely.

Learning takes time. You will inevitably encounter setbacks and even boredom along the way. Robert Green, the author of Mastery, shares his perspective on how to stay disciplined in the face of adversity:

"It takes the infamous 10,000 hours to become an expert or a master, or even 20,000 hours - perhaps the difference between being a chess master and a grandmaster. Over such a long period of study, you will inevitably have moments of boredom and longing. Practice, especially in the beginning, is never exciting. To survive these moments, you must feel a love for what you do. It would help if you felt a passion for discovering or inventing something new. Otherwise, you will inevitably give up."

It is vital that you like what you are learning, then you will be able to overcome failures in acquiring Mastery. Also, if you're going to devote years to mastering something, it should probably be something that helps you achieve your goals.

The sense of "love" that Green describes is achieved by a combination of cost-benefit analysis and a degree of enjoyment of the process. In other words, if you understand that learning will help you achieve your goals (the benefits are greater than the costs) and you enjoy learning it, you will love it.

However, there is another nuance. Often the enjoyment comes from success. You won't think the game is fun when you lose. However, winning will satisfy you no matter what you do. Learn to love the process of learning. Eventually, you will succeed, and you will love it.

Choose wisely what you need to study thoroughly before investing too much time or money. Learn skills that you have an interest in and that will help you achieve your goals.

Mute Your Ego

The hardest part of learning something new is accepting that you need to know it. It's hard to admit your imperfection. But instead of seeing it as a flaw, get it as an opportunity. The less room you leave for your ego, the more room there will be for new knowledge.

When you start acquiring some beginning skills, you may think you already know everything. I have made this mistake several times. It's crucial to remember the "unknown unknowns"-the things you don't know that you don't know. As Richard Feynman, the theoretical physicist known for his work on quantum mechanics and physics, said, "I am smart enough to know that I am stupid.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much more you have to learn. Awareness of this is not a bad indicator of success. Regardless of your skill level, it is unlikely that you will ever feel like a perfect master. Instead, you will realize that your former self, which thought it knew everything, didn't know anything. When that thought occurs to you, you can be sure that you have learned something.

Learn the rules so you know how to break them.

There are three levels of learning: rules, strategies, and counter-strategies. Learn the rules first. Then study the process of people who have achieved the results you dream about. Finally, learn how to develop counter-strategies against the strategies of your opponents.

Let's look at this using boxing as an example. The first level is learning the rules. When a beginner comes to a trainer, he doesn't send him to the ring. First, he teaches the rules: how to punch and hold and dodge a punch.

Then the boxer learns strategies. Boxing as a sport goes back hundreds of years, and there have been many champions who are masters of their craft. And now, every young athlete learns their techniques and strategies -- generally accepted and widely known ways to achieve victory.

However, at one point, our hero goes out to fight another champion who knows all the same strategies. And to defeat him, you need to take it to the next level - to develop your counter-strategy. That's the real skill.

Once you understand the rules and what your opponents think of them, you can find ways to break the rules and win.

In poker, you can "bluff" - make a big bet even if your card is unlikely to be better than your opponents' in situations where you know your opponent will have a hard time taking a call. In essence, you are de facto "breaking" the rules while de jure remaining a fair player. Don't confuse knowing the game's laws with learning how to win the game - these are different things.

Practice no matter what

You may think you're good at something, but in reality, you can never be sure until you test your learning in a real-world setting—everything changes when you have the consequences of your actions-the costs of losing, and the benefits of winning.

Your emotions boil over, and you find that in practice, things don't turn out the way they are described in the books. Mike Tyson said it best, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."

Theories that sometimes seem like the epitome of common sense don't always work in the real world the way you expect. In these cases, the evidence subverts logic. No one believed Donald Trump would win the presidential election until

It happened. When, as president, he called the leader of North Korea a "little rocket man," everyone rushed to find the nearest bomb shelter, fearing nuclear war.

In practice, however, we see that this unconventional approach not only did not cause a nuclear war but brought the planet closer to achieving peace in Korea than ever before. It is not an ode to a foreign president. It is a good illustration of the chasm between expectations and real life.

That's why you need to practice and practice often. Start practicing before you feel "ready." Failure is an opportunity to learn.

In school, getting a wrong answer on an exam is terrible. In life, getting it wrong is one of the best opportunities for learning and repetition.

When a previously unknown infection enters the body, immune cells selflessly rush into battle. In most cases, they fail, and we get sick. But our body is brilliant. It doesn't despair after the first setback. The immune system learns, and the next time it fights back, it is fully armed. Practice is a vaccine against failure. But you have to get over it first.

Master the skills of meta-learning

Meta-learning is the ability to learn. It is a skill you need to know quickly and effectively in any other field. They are essentially the same soft skills, only in the area of learning. Here are a few of them:

• Probabilistic thinking.
• Critical thinking
• Game theory
• Logic
• Psychology

These areas of knowledge help you work effectively with all types and formats of information, including figuring out something new, remembering it, and putting it into practice.

Some intangibles are necessary for success in any endeavor, including mastering new skills:

• The ability to overcome the fear of failure;
• Self-discipline;
• Communication skills;
• Self-awareness;
• Nutrition and fitness;
• Time Management.

All of these skills and competencies will significantly improve (and accelerate) your ability to learn anything.

Measure progress in terms of process, not outcome

Sometimes it's hard to tell if you've learned something. It can take years to start a business and achieve profitability or even a successful existence. Some games have a low probability of success.

A venture capitalist might invest in ten startups over a few years. Eight or nine of them are likely to fail, and only one or two are likely to succeed, but those one or two successful projects generate enough revenue to make the portfolio profitable.

Sometimes you play well and still lose. Likewise, success doesn't mean you've done everything right or that you have nothing more to learn. Navel Ravicant, CEO of AngelList, stresses the importance of maintaining a "beginner's state."

"Success is the enemy of learning. It can rob you of time and an incentive to start over. The beginner's mind also needs beginner's time."

Control your ego when you win and don't get discouraged when you lose. Just keep learning and doing.

Find ways to get feedback in the process. Set short-term goals, understand the difference in learning outcomes and be realistic about the results you can achieve at each step on your journey to Mastery.

Summary

Before you learn anything, make sure that it contributes to your goals and that you enjoy learning. Only when you realize that you know less than you don't know - you succeed. First, learn the game's rules (to play), then figure out how to break them (to win). Practice and make mistakes to get immune from them in the future. Learn to learn, and then you can become a master at anything.