Skill is the development of automatism

Most thinking people have already heard that skills are more important than knowledge (thanks to infobusinessmen for total enlightenment). But they somehow do not write what is a skill. This ability to work in a semi-automatic mode, without thinking for a long time over each operation of the process. The skill is acquired only with practical exercises.

Have you given up flexibility?

People differ in learning ability. Some believe that it depends on age. But this is not true: it depends on the plasticity of the psyche. And this quality is only partly congenital. More often than not, after growing up a man forbids himself to be brought up (according to the apt statement of the psychologist Kozlov). If you are fighting for the right not to listen to criticism, your learning ability is rapidly falling.

By stages

The formation of skills and abilities goes through several stages. On the first you do not know how and do not notice that you do not know how. On the second you already see when you made a mistake, but not before. On the third, you are aware of the process and know how to avoid mistakes. On the fourth - the process goes to the automatic level, saving the resources of your psyche. They say that there is also the fifth stage - the opportunity to do and teach someone who does not know. Knowledge and skills are fairly easily transferred if you know very well and know something.

Curiosity is required

What is required to acquire a skill? It is not easy if a person refuses to be curious. Of course, a lot depends on the type of the psyche, and on the current emotional state. The best way to make success impossible, at least once to call it boring. All, now it will be difficult for you. Although this can be overcome, if you divide the matter into pieces and quickly deal with it. But the quality will suffer. So do not call things boring.

Can anyone

The second tactic of success is to look for models to follow. That is, people who already know how to do what you are trying to learn. Skill is not an exclusive phenomenon. Sports schools teach that what one person does can be done by anyone else. Any. And this is a sport where people for the sake of one centimeter of the record work for decades, but not everyone becomes a star. What can I say about the townsfolk, in whose life does productive labor produce much better results?

Systems approach

It is important to have feedback, without it it is difficult to get a skill. It's only in Hollywood that the lone hero himself learns everything. In reality, it is necessary to interact with some kind of training system. It will give you two important things: motivation and information. The second is more important, since the problem of motivation can be solved in a different way. Your system can be courses, universities or just specific people. Do not believe when a person proudly declares that he has made himself. It was made by people whom he found and who managed to please.

To not give up

Much depends on whether you are able to learn from mistakes. Important is the perseverance, which in some experiments was measured in minutes spent by a person on solving an unsolvable problem in principle . Are you sure that you would be on top of this indicator on the scale of the test subjects? If not, train and learn the concentration on the task. Do not be intimidated by complexity.