How Do We Get Better At Something?

Here's a giveaway question:  WHO WANTS TO GET BETTER?  Obviously, everyone wants, right?  So, How Do We Get Better At Something?  The long and short answer here is to keep doing it over and over again.  Over time, your self-confidence will go a long way in boosting yourself WHEN you do perform a specific task.  Just like driving.  You can enroll in 5-star driving schools over and over again BUT DON'T expect to be an outright expert📗📙📘

Problem is, some of us are unaware that WHAT seems prevailing in us is that ALL-OR-NOTHING mindset.  In school when it's time for role-playing or school speech events, someone can blurt 'BUT I'M NOT GOOD SPEAKING UP IN GROUPS' or I'M NOT GOOD AT SPORTS or I'M TERRIBLE AT BUDGETING.  Problem is, sometimes it becomes our lame excuse for our miscues and worse, a shield to keep us EXEMPTED and exonerated for one snafu after another.  Sounds familiar right?  BUT this is a sad plight❎❎❎

My take here is that generally, people hold strong beliefs around WHAT they are and are NOT good at.  Furthermore, in some particular cases, people tend to view themselves through the lens of 'EXTREMES', like they are either all good OR all bad at something, rather than somewhere in the middle.  Psychologists call it as those exaggerated processes which they parlayed in layman's terms as 'THINKING ERRORS'.  Specifically, they refer to that error of seeing things in a 'black OR white' manner rather than in shades of gray💚💛💜

And that's the all OR nothing thinking the experts are highlighting that it influences our core beliefs which we hold about our own abilities BUT also exerts a powerful effect on the explanations we give for how there can be such large differences in people's ability levels.  YES, as that old story goes, some people have got it and some people DON'T.  True, we are born with certain strengths and weaknesses that predispose us toward certain pursuits😊😊😊

Our takeaway:  Our life is a bit like going on a treasure hunt where we look for clues on the map that will point us in the right direction [YES, I remember the 'AMAZING RACES' we have had in our management team's teambuilding] WHERE sometimes we do get lost OR stuck in dead ends over and over again, starting to lose that waning hope until suddenly, one of our teammates will uncork something, voila!  This begs an important question.  Is it proven that we keep repeating doing the same thing over and over again, we'll get better at it.  Generally YES so [unless one is quite deceitful even to himself, cheating upon himself].  In a nutshell, nothing fancy, nothing complex here.  If you're facing an 'uphill climb' on something you want to get a mastery, to quote the famous NIKE advert, JUST DO IT, dude❗❗❗