A brief YouTube talk (by Clegg) that asks how to master skills, defines mastery as the ability to execute effortlessly without conscious thought, and illustrates this with anecdotes (tying shoes, riding a bike). The speaker's prescription for gaining mastery is repeated, deliberate practice: "do it repeatedly" until you go from bad to good.
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How do you master offers? How do you master. How do you master anything? That's the question. Let's start with that. How do you master anything? Like what is an offer? And how do you master anything? So let me define mastery first. What is mastery? What does mastery look like? Mastery to me looks like the ability to execute effortlessly without the use of conscious resources. Let me show you something. Watch this. This is good. Not really. Untied shoe. Watch this. Okay.
Without looking away. Without looking. Do you know how long it took me to do that? When I first started, it felt impossible. When I first learned to tie my shoe, it took weeks and it felt impossible. The same thing riding a bike. See, we won't let our children off the hook. We let ourselves off the hook all the time. What is mastery? Mastery is the ability to execute effortlessly without the use of conscious resources. How do I do that? Repeated iterations. Do it repeatedly. When you're bad at it long enough to get good at it.