A short instructional talk by Myron Golden explaining that overwhelm comes from not mastering individual components of a complex task. He advises mastering one component at a time (‘mastery stacking’) so the full task becomes effortless and non-conscious, preventing collapse from too many unmastered moves.
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Hey there, YouTube. Myron golden here. I want to talk to you today about how to overcome overwhelm. How do you overcome overwhelm? What is overwhelmed? Well, overwhelmed is when you feel like you got all the stuff to do and not enough time to get it done and you just collapse and go lay on the couch. So why do people feel overwhelmed? Because they don't master any aspect of the thing they're learning. We feel overwhelmed because we have this really complex series of moves we have to make and we haven't mastered one of them. What you have to do to keep from being overwhelmed is you have to master one aspect of the time at a time. By the way, mastery is the ability to execute effortlessly without the use of conscious resources. So you master one thing, then you master the next component, then you master the next component, then you master the next component, and then you master the next component. You stack all these masters on top of each other. By mastery stacking, eventually you will be able to do the entire complex series of moves without using any conscious resources. And you'll make it look easy. And to you it will feel easy. If you don't stack mastery only going to stack a lack of clarity and continue to create overwhelm. That's how to overcome over.
