3 Keys To Mastering Any Skill Or Subject by Bob Bly

In my experience, there are 3 things you can do to accelerate your mastery of a skill or subject.

1. Study. Read books and e-books on the topic. Listen to podcasts, webinars, and teleseminars. Go to conferences, workshops, and lectures. You probably already do this.

But if studying is all you do, you are not doing enough. You must add the 2 steps below, especially #3.

2. Observe. Follow the successful people in your field, see what they do, and do the same.

If you are a direct mail copywriter, for instance, don’t throw away your junk mail. Open and study each piece, and collect the ones that impress you or that you receive multiple times. (If you receive it multiple times, it means the mailer is working.)

3. Do. If you are an aspiring web designer, design some websites. If you are an aspiring novelist, write a novel.

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Yet when I speak at writers’ conference and ask how many write every day, only about 20% of attendees raise their hands.

The trick is to get yourself in a situation where you write every day, so you quickly log the 1,000 hours you need to become good.

If you are an aspiring writer, take a look at your local weekly newspaper. Are they advertising in the help-wanted section for part-time reporters? Sign up. Churn out a lot of articles. The hours will accumulate and you will start to get much better as a writer. Or volunteer to write the newsletter for your church or the professional associations of which you are a member.

In college, although I majored in chemical engineering, I actively wrote feature and news articles for the school newspaper, which luckily for me, was a daily, not a weekly.

By the time I graduated with my BS in chemical engineering, I had logged over 1,000 hours writing. I wasn’t great, but I was already good

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