How to quickly learn any skill

We were not taught to study, and this is what is so important in our time when there is a sea of opportunities for education. And often it is the ability to learn quickly is an advantage and the main factor of success.

To quickly learn, you need to pay attention to five important elements. Here they are.

Goal

Your training should be result-oriented. The actual end result will be used as a measure of your skill. Thus, you do not need to set abstract goals like "I want to learn how to play the piano", "I want to learn how to knit" or "I want to become a web developer".

A tangible result can be seen or felt:

• Create an e-book and start selling it
• Write a program for calculating monthly expenditures
• Create a website
• Create a blog and write 50 articles in it
• Create YouTube channel and rent 10 videos for it
• To take a short film

For example, if you want to become a writer, then the product will speak for you: write a chat-bot for the messenger for writing help from Edubirdie, so that users appreciate it and give tips for improvement. You can add a deadline if you want. On some people, it is sobering, while others get a fair amount of stress. So act on the circumstances.

Think about what kind of result you will achieve and in what it will be expressed. You do not need to develop a skill without understanding clearly what will be done.

Deconstruction

Make the process of mastering the skill translational, dividing it into small components. It is very important.

Example: To learn how to develop sites you need to acquire several sub-skills, such as knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, internal scripting language, SQL and much more.

All these sub-skills need to be mastered one at a time. Of course, the time will come when they will need to be combined and learn how to use it but focus on small victories.

Key issues:

• What are the smallest components of this skill?
• What resources will I use to learn the sub-skill? It can be books, online courses, seminars, video lectures.
• Are there tools that I can learn right away to start practising?

Quick practice without distractions

Practice should be introduced as soon as possible. If possible, on the first day of training. And it's not a joke. If you are advised to first read a few books, and then get down to business, ignore this advice. You need to start moving right away, even if you get a complete nonsense.

In this case, you need to remove all distractions. Here are some tips that might come in handy:

• There is no internet.
• If possible, remove the phone.
• Find a mentor who will quickly answer your smart and stupid questions.
• Practice at least once a day.
• Lower the barrier for your practice: if you want to play the guitar, keep it in front of your eyes.
• If for you this skill is really important, you will have to sacrifice entertainment, because in the day there are still 24 hours left.
• Create checklists to get you started quickly.
• Create analogies and metaphors to better understand the material.

Mastery

The first four steps will give you a solid foundation of understanding and experience to achieve true mastery. But what distinguishes good results from beautiful ones? Distinguishes their number of hours of deliberate practice, which you invest and how actively you are looking for ways to improve your skills. Most experts reach a comfortable level of earning money and stay on it for the rest of their lives.

The present master is improved every day. If you decide to instil a skill and become a professional in it, then:

• Analyze the work of these masters
• Find your weaknesses and get rid of them
• Constantly read books on the topic
• Teach Others
• Find those who are better than you and improve on contrast
• Achieve perfection in one component, then in another, and so on.