Mastery
Mastery by George Leonard is a book that deals with the key terms and concepts anyone must know to truly master any skill. The book gives us four different types of students, each different in there learning method and in their achieved skill level. It also gives us the five steps to mastering any skill.
The four different types of learners, the dabbler, the obsessive, the hacker, and the master. Each learner has their own techniques of learning the same skills. The dabbler learns one skill or technique very quickly but then gives up and moves on to a new area of study. The obsessive, like the dabbler, learns the skills very quickly. Unlike the dabbler, the obsessive does not move on but works twice as hard to keep his
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The next key is a painfully obvious one, practice. Practice is needed to perfect any skill, as well as master it. While trying to master a skill, many refer to practice as something they have not something they do. Leonard goes on to write, that practice is a path upon which you travel, the ending destination is mastery. Practice should become a part of daily life, not only something that must be done but needs to be done. Surrender, is the next key, it is inevitable that any new learner will feel clumsy. This sometimes can hinder the learning process, because the learner’s defenses are up. In order to master any skill you must get past the initial feelings of uncertainty are truly learn to trust your instructor. If he or she asks you to do something, give it a shot, it just might work. Personally I believe this next key is the most essential to the success of mastering any skill, intentionality. Leonard describes intentionality as character, willpower, attitude, imaging, and the mental game all wrapped up into one. The mental game is what I believe is the single most important thing to success in any skill. Visualizing a perfect golf swing and then attempting will help the shot. Golfer Jack Nicklaus said “A successful shot was fifty percent visualization, forty percent setup and only ten percent swing.” The last key to mastery the Leonard gives us is what he calls “the edge.” The edge comes when someone has mastered an art and is more likely to push the
Perfecting a certain skill can take a very long time and a lot of hard work.
A person is capable of learning a skill if they put their time and effort towards what they feel passionate about. Has someone ever wanted to develop an ability that you practice it for hours a day? I did, I have spent around 100 hours a year trying to perfect my loving skill, volleyball. It was a hardworking skill, but enjoyable as well. It is my way of life. The most important years of my life was my volleyball experience in High School.
For example, in order for me to learn how to do injections, or draw blood I’d have to practice in a clinic. Doing these tasks correctly means asking others for help when needed, setting a goal, and planning out the strategy to learning it, monitoring my progress, and getting feedback from others about my performance. The best way deliberate practice can help me fully learn these new skills is by practicing them repetitively. You know the saying “practice makes perfect?” You can’t learn how to do billing, or how to administer injections overnight. It takes time, and effort to learn something new. Paying attention to what you’re doing is very important as well.
As previously shared at the location where I am completing clinical practice nurses coordinate timely and appropriate medical care—but nothing more. Nevertheless, case managers should follow nursing standards and practice according to them. The nurse case manager enjoys autonomy and independence. They receive training and preparation to face their daily challenges and succeed. Recently, the company has developed and is promoting the use of a phone application to facilitate the billing process. The billing process is the method used by this company to show the case manager’s productivity. The productivity is reflected on how many activities each case manager performs for each individual referral or client. The activities vary; it could be from
In order for me to attain my goal, I would need to look into what I want to learn and break it down into smaller steps. According to Kaufman, “If you practice the most important things first, you’ll be able to improve your performance in the least amount of time possible”(Kaufman, 00:10:23). As I break down the skill, it will let me decide on what parts of the skills will definitely help me to learn what I want. In addition, it will give me time to set out a routine for me to start
This taxonomy proposes six categories to follow rather than learning things by heart, starting from the simplest to the most complex in which the students be capable first of create: learners here have to be able of builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure. Second, evaluate: which means that they can make judgments about the value of ideas or materials. Third, analyze: learners can separate material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. In this point they have to be able of inferred things about something. Four, apply: Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in their environment. Five,
In a world where creating a mistake or not knowing the solution to an issue you are looked at as a failure and not someone who can be respected. In a society where mistakes are not accepted yet these authors portray the importance of practicing and making those mistakes. Learning how to master a specific skill like knowing how to maneuver a soccer ball, play the violin without a hiccup, and doing your job to the best of your ability takes time. With time you are capable of memorizing the skills and find what is harder for you and teaching a way to understand it for oneself. The profound authors Malcolm Gladwell, who wrote “10,000 Hours Rule”, Charles Duhigg writer of “How Habits Work”, and lastly Dan Coyle, who wrote “The Sweet Spot” all giving different perspectives on what is a possible route one could take to begin achieving mastery of a skill. Each kind of writing that is being presented by the authors use many different kinds of evidence to show the understanding of the topic of creating a habit, remembering the activities from memory, and lastly repetition and how it is engraved in the brain once it has been done many many times. Gladwell, Coyle, and Duhigg all explain how repetition is a key part of refining your skills. Humans have the ability to find something that they see as interesting and become good at it. This is only accomplished if using parts of steps from these authors experiences and studies.
On Dec 19, 2013 Target Corporation announced to the world that they had suffered a major data security breach. Due to Target Corporations poor stance on network security, hackers were able to steal over 40 million payment card records, encrypted PINs and 70 million customer records during the Black Friday sales week. Initial reports indicated that it was malware placed on their Point of Sales (POS) system, but that was just the tip of the iceberg of the breach. If there had been better security from the start this breach could have been avoided or greatly reduced.
Author Ralph Waldo Emerson once sad " Unless you try something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow". On past experiences in my life I would agree with Emerson because one will never truly master something but people everyday have said people have mastered a sport or a instrument but everyday that person practices on that one thing all the time. Look at some great sports players like Messi or Stephen Curry both are spectacular at what they do. Messi was looked at by many people when he was young at not able to play due to how short and small he was. He started to practice on end to help him get to a point where a small soccer team picked him up and play for them at this point he wasn't done so he got even better and now competes with some of the other worlds best
Deliberate practise focuses not only on “learning by doing” but on incorporating clear learning objectives and giving immediate and constructive feedback to the learner. It allows learners to address their weaknesses through repetitive practice. These elements are what make deliberate practise crucial in the attainment of expert
I look at my computer just as it ticks to 10 o'clock, I hear my Mom calling to get to bed, but I can't. Just a few more minutes turns into just a few more hours but I must keep working. Gabby has me captivated, learning new things about her every second, but not the right things. I need to find them! Then, they're there, right in front of me the whole time. Print, print, print, I chant in my head. Then it comes, ready for turn in. When I receive it, it's like a song and the E shouts at me. I praise myself, my hard work has paid off.
Educators are set in place to guide us through a thorough understanding of a subject, and give us enough information to suffice without their immediate guidance. In piano class, our Professors have been taught to use specific methods on breaking down the skills to becoming a pianist. From scales to score reading, all of the lessons are used to gain a sustainable amount of self knowledge to plunk out notes for our future choirs or assist our own rehearsals in a practice room. Guido of Arezzo, musical therapist, pedagogue and author of Micrologus suggested a lack of common knowledge is one of the main causes for an individual to not put forth the appropriate efforts to achieve a perfect understanding of the task.
Author Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." People expect for someone to master something beyond what they have already mastered, but it's hard for people to master in something beyond that. Sometimes mastering one thing is the best result for you due to people not knowing how to master anything else. Some may believe that mastering more than one thing is good, but others believe that mastering one thing is good enough. In the world we live in today, mastering at least one thing should be good enough to get you through life. On a online research, it stated that 50% of Americans are at least good at something. I understand that mastering in other
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First, to open the door of mastery, we need to develop the ability to surrender to the teacher and demands of the discipline we want to master. In other words it means to be humble and prepared to sacrifice the activities we are used to. In business, we have to be prepared to surrender our time, activities, and even social life sometimes in order to work and improve our business.