How to Learn Any Skill Twice as Fast

When you understand the skill of deliberate practice, you progress a whole lot faster.

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[Thomasfrank]

🧐 Trying out a new style with this video - what'd you think?
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🖊 Quote of the week: “If you don’t know what you’re doing, you can be very creative about it.” - Richard Koch

[ididzy]

1. Practice with a specific goal in mind
2. Identify the most important sub-skills
3. Imitate, assimilate, innovate.

[doctorkimcruises]

I think the biggest problem is getting STUCK in "listening/watching mode, " which is consumption mode. The point is to do it intentionally and apply the techniques you observe, into your own product/art.

[QuietlyMagnetic]

Miyamoto Musashi aptly put it — “A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study”

[CaptainSinbad]

Lighting game is far too strong my friend. And we still gotta make that Edgar Wright parody at some point 😁

[WisdomWealth]

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

[TheDhammaHub]

It is so easy to be busy but not productive. I consider myself pretty productive, but only have 3-4 high productivity hours each day!

[kaspeezook]

Wtf is a Charles Cornell?!?


Edit: Seriously though, very mind-opening and inspirational video. (:

[TheAlmostAstrophysicist]

It's honestly so easy to just put in hours into studying or any sort of skill, enough to feel stressed out, while never actually mapping out and internalizing our main goal and the steps to get there. Thank you for all of your videos!

[the.learningproject]

Couldn’t agree more with the points made here! From spending the last year learning a bunch of new different type of skills (like the piano, skateboarding, gymnastic) - although all of a very different nature, the one constant in any given learning process has always been consistent, goal-oriented brick building. Always entering each practice session with a very particular and concrete goal in mind, no matter how insignificant that goal might seem, is the way to go, since it almost always guarantees some degree of progression (which is important obviously for learning, but also for motivation and self-efficacy). Thanks for the awesome video, Thomas!

[CaseyBurnsInvesting]

Improving anything is all about daily habits and being ok with being uncomfortable.

[Dhishan]

You have certainly mastered your video craft. I'm learning a lot as a new Youtuber from you...not just inspirational content but your editing is next level.

[JH-xcen]

"Improvement isn't only determined by the hours you practice"
Ling Ling: Impossible

[intentionally]

Challenge for anyone reading this comment: Next time you sit down to practice your skill of choice, take 10 seconds to set a concrete goal for your practice session.
Deliberate practice can be more difficult, but it's truly the secret to mastering any skill. Great video, Thomas!

[patatrah]

Thanks for this very useful video!
I started taking dance classes this year, and as you said in the video: I noticed that I was focusing on the moves I already knew rather than focusing on things I found difficult. I need to focus on hard things, to watch and to copy 💃

[CHEFPKR]

I recently did this with learning Japanese. I stopped my work book competition and focused on learning the alphabets instead.

[maxwilson]

That was a nicely integrated ad! Very well done, I barely noticed.

[BeyondaThought]

Dame I love your videos Thomas Frank. They make me so much better as a YouTuber, and just a general human passing through this thing we call life.

[heterotrophic]

0:00 Introduction
0:29 Deliberate practise
1:00 Have a goal in mind when practising deliberately - define what you are going to do
1:53 Deliberately practising things that you're less proficient at
2:47 Discipline for practising
3:45 Study the not-so-fundamentals
5:01 Finding fundamentals of your skill - identify important sub-skills
5:39 Critical observation - actively analysing observation, taking parts you want to attempt and observing it
8:25 Copy - Imitate, Assimilate, Innovate
9:02 Instant feedback for practise - Imitate
9:42 Passing off someone else's work as your own vs copying for practise
10:19 Adding desired devices from others into your vocabulary - Assimilate
11:14 Taking others' devices and forming it into your own creation - Innovate
11:33 Conclusion
11:53 Building mastery with discipline and habits - Skillshare sponsor segment

[Bwubdle]

I'll never forget when my band teacher once said "Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect" while it sounds "duh", "obviously" at first glance, but as you think about it you realize it means more than meets the eye.