Dan Martell uses golf to explain how professional content creators improve: practice outside of actual content, make one targeted fix at a time, and accept that early work won't be used while you build the skill.
You know the golfer? Yeah. You don't go up to a golfer and say, okay, there's 17 things wrong with what you're doing. You say, hey, the way you're holding your club, you need to do this, right? That grip, we're just gonna— okay, that's all we're gonna go, 18 holes, that's all we care about. Go hit with the new grip and like adjust, right? And they also don't practice while they play, right? That's amateur hour. Okay. Oh, amateurs practice while they play. A professional practices outside of the play. And that's also a thing that I had to do. So like in the early days when you're trying to learn these skills, you might create a lot of moments where the content is never gonna be used, but the whole point was to practice, right? On purpose, like intentional practice.
