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These concern style and values that are considered important. They are often a reflection of the character of the man or woman on top.
You are like an anthropologist studying an alien culture, attuned to all of its nuances and conventions.
someone with more bark than bite.
First, knowing your environment inside and out will help you in navigating it and avoiding costly mistakes.
skills that can be practiced.
imitating
exceptional skill level at a craft.
The natural model for learning, largely based on the power of mirror neurons, came from watching and imitating others,
we learn best through practice and repetition—the natural learning process.
The more we speak and practice, the more fluent we become.
First, it is essential that you begin with one skill that you can master, and that serves as a foundation for acquiring others. You must avoid at all cost the idea that you can manage learning several skills at a time. You need to develop your powers
of concentration, and understand that trying to multitask will be the death of the process.
Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions and short-circuits the learning process.
cultivate the ability to handle them with discipline.
In practicing a skill in the initial stages, something happens neurologically to the brain that is important for you to understand. When you start something new, a large number of neurons in the frontal cortex (the higher, more conscious command area of the brain) are recruited and become active, helping you in the learning process.
once something is repeated often enough, it becomes hardwired and automatic,
entire network of neurons is developed to remember this single task,
the fact that we can still ride a bicycle
Once an action becomes automatic, you now have the mental space to observe yourself as you practice.
Trying something over and over again grounds you in reality, making you deeply aware of your inadequacies and of what you can accomplish with more work and effort.
pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, gaining fluency in skills, and experiencing the power this brings. You develop patience. Boredom no longer signals the need for distraction, but rather the need for new challenges to conquer.
those who have researched the subject repeatedly come up with the number of 10,000 hours.
It means that so much practice time—no matter the person or the field—leads to a qualitative change in the human brain.
tacit
take criticism and use it constructively?
ahead of the curve.
human brain is asked to do and handle more than ever before.
this chaos
capable of organizing large amounts of information.
future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can never focus enough to learn.
culture that generally values intellect and reasoning with words.
building process and possess the necessary skills.
manual labor and operating machines,
never again accept commercial work. It drained her of all of her creative energy and destroyed her desire to work on her own time. It also made her feel dependent on a paycheck.
simple law of human psychology that your thoughts will tend to revolve around what you value most.
value learning above everything else.
valuing learning above all else, you will set the stage for your creative expansion, and the money will soon come to you.
paradox is that the mind is essentially free. It can travel anywhere, across time and space.
as good as gold
Lid
hoodoo,
Jonah’s Gourd Vine,
when you enter a new environment, your task is to learn and absorb as much as possible.
take the exams just for the hell of it.
Where had he gone wrong? Perhaps unconsciously, he had become intimidated and afraid of the flying process itself. Now he was more afraid of failing.
prepared to do whatever it took.
work worthwhile.
trust and faith.
Buried in their minds
Little did they know that such apparent ease was the result of so many hours of intense practice over so many years.
