Record yourself doing a skill, compare your best and worst attempts, and repeat what worked. The speaker warns against inventing explanations for why methods work, since they sound convincing but mislead people trying to learn.
It doesn't matter what skill you want to learn. You can repeat the process 100 times and record it and look at the top ones and then look at the bottom ones and see what was different between those two, and then do more of the good stuff and less of the bad stuff. But if you do that enough times, you get pretty good. And then people ask you, how are you so good at this? And you're like, well, I just looked at what was different between the times that worked and the times that didn't. I did it enough times that I only do the things that work. Then people say, why do you think that works? And this is where people get off-ramped. They then answer the question, but they have no idea. I don't know why these things work. I just know that they work. A lot of beginners, intermediates, and advanced people get led astray. And I try to censor myself on this stuff where I say, you know, because of this, or here's why, or the reason is. The problem is, is that those things are very compelling. And so from a persuasion perspective, because it's one of the most persuasive words you have. And so I try to balance kind of my understanding of language now with what I believe to be ethical.
