BZ Book Review 12: <Micromastery> by Robert Twigger
Key Takeaways
1. Micromastery focuses on learning smaller things quickly, keeping exercising the brain. It also encourages a polymathic lifestyle, meaning a lifestyle that involves continuously learning many difference skills.
2. Leverage multi-sensory learning, meaning use a combined sensory (visual, listening, oral, written..) learning process.
3. Six steps/elements of mircomastery process
Entry trick: something that kickstart your learning and you can see the results immediately.
Rub-pat: the obstacle that arises when two required skills are incongruent with each other.
Background support: Tools and environment you need to start your skills learning process.
Payoff: To avoid giving up in the mid-way. You need see payoff occasionally to keep yourself motivated.
Repeatability: If you can replicate a micromastery over and over again, you will be able to see your improvements with each repetition, increasing your confidence
Experimentation: Enable you to play around with the skills you are acquiring and apply it in different situations that you can see the actual use of it.
World of Wisdom
“Humans are learning animals and we have to be”
