How to Reach the Level of Effortlessness in Any Skill

Repetition, Mastery and Automation

Ding! Sparks scattered on the concrete floor. Some of them landed on the shoes of a young apprentice closely watching the blacksmith do his job.

Ding! Echo hit the selling of a blacksmith shop and was lost among the piles of rusty metal pieces.

The young apprentice was studying every move of an old blacksmith as he chucks the iron he was striking into the furnace. It wasn’t only the heat that made Jack’s cheeks red. He was anxious about the fact that he will be asked to do metalwork on his own.

Throughout a week Jack couldn’t explain, what made every movement of the old man so fluent and accurate. The old man was a master of his craft doing it for many years.

“Now it’s your turn, Jack!” informed the blacksmith pointing his nose at the piece of metal he held with a huge glove. The other end of the metal was in the red-hot glimmering fire.

Jack took a few quick steps and took over. After a minute or so, he took the piece and carefully transported it on the anvil. While his heart pounded from excitement as well as stress.

The hammer felt uncomfortable and heavy in Jack’s arm. However, he struck the piece using much of his strength. After raising the hammer he looked at the impact the hit made.

It was a failure. Jack thought that the metal was much harder but the heating it up made it very moldable. The hit made it too flat and brittle.

“Perfection will come with practice,” said the old blacksmith expecting the exact outcome he witnessed.

The practice equals trying and simultaneously adjusting the action to make it better. Sometimes success appears, sometimes not. During the practice, there’s no pressure to reach perfection. It’s only the way toward it.

If we wouldn’t repeat the action we wouldn’t have a chance to improve it. If we don’t improve, we get what we get.

People that stick and do something over and over again master that activity.

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