How to Learn any Skill?
Learning new skill in today's world is the ultimate currency. If you can learn new skill rapidly you can increase your chances of success. Best way to learn any skill is immersion. Tony Robbins says its best. 'When you immerse yourself in any skills your chances to learn that becomes double'.
Question is what is immersion? Immersion is giving your 100% to one thing. Arranging your environment just behind one thing. Imagine how did you learn language? Whatever your primary language is, how did you learn it? You observe it, You speak, you make mistake and in no time you were able to speak it properly. Similarly when you started speaking 2nd Language you did the same thing.....
I can put it into 4 Steps Formula of learning
a) Unconscious - Incompetent
b) Conscious - Incompetent
c) Conscious - Competent
d) Unconscious - Competent
Whatever you are doing right now in an excellent way there was a time. You did'not how to do and you have idea that skill existed. You were just doing it badly. I call it as Learning Level 1. Most of the time people who stayed at this level. Never reflect and never progress. For most of the skills people stayed at this level.
Then came the time when you did know that you are unable to perform this task. Now this Level 2. You can either move to Level 1 or Level 3 from here. This is your choice. If you choose to learn about subject and start working on it. In sometime you will move to Level 3. If you choose to ignore it you will back to square 1.
Level 3 - This is the most confusing time, this is time when you are learning driving you do accident. This is the time when speaking in public your hands are sweat, your heart is pumping out of you. You don't feel anything. This is the most difficult time for a person. However, if you can work your way out from here.... You move towards
Mastery - Level 4. This is when you are doing something but you don't care, coming back to driving. Now you are driving, smoking and talking to people simultaneously. Now that task has move to subconscious mind and this is your 2nd nature. These are people who seems to have magic touch. It seems that they have learn this skill from childhood.
Everyone wants to reach this stage but not everyone are willing to pay the price.... You have to pay the price. whatever you do you have to move from Level 1 -2-3 and then 4. There is not shortcut. Yes you can decrease your time but you have to follow this path.
Best way i find is follow Immersion > Fire all direction (use all medium and your sense - more of it downside) > VMR ( Visual Mental rehearsal) > Play the game > Review
Fire all direction- Learn from everywhere. First find the medium which suits you best. Everyone have 1 favorite way of learning, it can be reading, writing, watching or listening. Discover yourself. Use that medium as much as you can. For me its video, so whenever i want to learn any new skill i try to find a video on it. Once i get a grasp through video, I move towards writing, I wrote whatever i have learn from video. As a result now i know better far better and my memory stays for ever. Then i teach it to others which includes speaking and listening. This way i have use all my 5 senses in just one skill. now after teaching i will never forget about this skill.
Now play little mind game lets take an example of public speaking > Close your eyes and imagine that you are standing at TED platform, you are giving your presentation to 5000 people. They are laughing, crying, playing with you and the end of 18 minute talk, you get standing ovation..... now open your eyes. How do you feel? you can try this exercise with any skill. Imagine you are already master this help you to become better
Play the game > nothing works if you do not put actual work, everything else is useless if you do not do it. Do it with all your heart and hands. Remember my 3H formula (Head, Heart and Hand) use all this and do it. If you want to become a public speaker join toast master club or rotary club. Go to school, college, and University. Give free presentation and improve your skills
Review - If you do not review you cannot improve yourself .SO in the end review and believe 1% better daily rule.
Have patience, All good things take time.......