If You Want to Improve at Anything, Don’t Do This
Today I am going to make a simple, but critical point about how to improve at anything. This is a fundamental principle that will always remain true with no exceptions. If you want to improve at anything, you must find a process that will lead to improvement. This is a no brainer.
However, the problem with no brainers is that it doesn’t take any brains to start. As a result, when people want to improve at something they just start trying to improve. They find something on Google and try that for a few days. They hear about some other method from a friend and immediately decide to switch to trying that for a few days. Then they see something in a video that looks like it will work even better and give that a try as well. Subsequently, after weeks and weeks of trying different things they are only marginally better off than when they started.
This process is exactly what NOT to do when you want to improve at anything. The process of improvement requires committing to a process, not trying any and every process. The undeniable truth is that the actual execution of the process you choose to facilitate how you improve is more important than the process you choose.
As the old saying goes, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. I will also add that it’s counterproductive to skin a cat more than one way. What’s more, switching from one process to another is just as counterproductive. If you want to get better at anything, consistency is the answer for how you follow through and earn meaningful improvement.