In a world where every day is a competition, the only way to win is to be the master of everything. No matter where we are, there will always be the impending challenge of being the best, and while we usually don’t take everything seriously, there’s something within us that wants to win every battle. Whether you’re at school, work or even in public, a certain blocker will arise, leaving you with no choice but to fight back.
While it is an accepted fact that nobody is perfect, it is quite imperative to at least be on top of things by mastering the important aspects of daily living. The golden proverb ‘practice makes perfect’ might have been regarded as a joke, but isn’t it something that we should take seriously moving forward?
As some studies state, it takes an estimated 10,000 hours of rigorous and tedious practice before you become an expert at something. Deliberate practice might mean so many things and a checklist should always come in handy for you to be sure that you’re on the right path.
Some of the determining factors for you to be coined as someone who’s serious about mastering a skill include practicing your skill at any available moment, constantly striving for improvement, an intense assessment of your own performance, self-evaluation of your little successes along the way and looking into aspects that you’re not good at while learning from them.
One good example of treating practice as the best tool for success is the famous story of Bill Gates. Now raking in a net worth of $61 billion, Gates started his venture by joining the Computer Club at an early age in the glorious year of 1968. After 3 years, Bill Gates was observed to spend a little bit more time than usual in acquiring as much knowledge as he can about computers in the University of Washington’s computer centers and laboratories.
Two years later, the computer wizard tested his skills by working as a computer programmer even if he was just in his senior high school year. In 1975, he dropped out of the eponymous Harvard University and launched the mogul company Microsoft using his experiences. If measured, Bill Gates followed the 10,000-hour rule (from 1968 to 1975) and came-off more successful than he ever thought he would.
Practicing involves very solid self-discipline for it to come to fruition.
Some advice for mastery suggested by life coaches include consciously surrounding yourself with people who have the same mindset as yours, building expert habits along the way, cascading to others what you’ve already learned, not wasting time on small things and petty life drama, deliberately practicing as much as you could, getting a coach to check up on you every now and then and appointing someone to wake you up whenever your oversleep.
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