Holy sh*t. Insight about nature of teachers and Mastery

[mmKay]

This so obvious in retrospect. It brings a whole new perspective to learning for me.

 

I have unconsciously held teachers as an authority and as people that "have mastery" and "have it figured out". Someone I look up to as the master - period.

 

The specific example for me is learning guitar. I've been learning for the past 6 months and there are certain YT teachers I've modeling.

They are incredibly skilled, don't get me wrong

I was holding them in my mind as " they  KNOW how to play guitar. They are the teacher"

But as I learned my first songs , I realized I can teach guitar now, to a certain level, to certain people.

And THAT is what they are doing to ME.

The teachers are actually still learning!

It brings somewhat of a relief when thinking about the concept of Mastery . You never arrive!

The skill of guitar never ends. It NEVER ends!!!

It never ends!!!

Therefore the teacher doesn't have it ALL figured out, he is just ahead of me.

 

Not a single person has "mastered" the skill of guitar in the absolute sense. Because music, as many other domains, is infinite,  and you can infinitely come up with new combinations and train muscle memory and so on.

 

Yes, 10k hours gives you a decent amount of mastery.  But the process of mastery and learning never ends.

It seems so obvious from retrospect, but I'm sure it has been a frame many of you hold as well.

 

This insight was influenced by me recently revisiting the " learning from partially wrong perspectives" blog video.

 

You are learning from people relatively ahead of you.

 

 

 

Looking at you L e o  n a r d

Edited February 23 by mmKay

[Razard86]

High Quality Post! Glad you discovered what you did.

[mmKay]

The process of master Mastery runs from your beginning till the day you die

 

https://www.actualized.org/insights/i-am-not-a-master

Edited February 26 by mmKay

[KoryKat]

Wanna take it a step further?

Advanced Learning and Teaching Technologies mastercourse like $600 40 hour course (FOR FREE cuz this link has been up for like 10 years)

 

It's by Eben Pagan which is a total OG-- like Leo had a mentor who was mentored by Pagan.... And Wyatt Woodsmall who is the mentor to Pagan... And Woodsmall is a Neurolinguistic Programming god-tier level expert.

 

I've watched this various times over last decade , there is a pdf you can always check the summary (it's incredible!!) 

 

I think I'ma watch it again, it's soooo goooooddd!!!!! 

 

sadly I thought I have the video, i do not

 

AUDIO:

https://archive.org/details/advanced-learning-and-teaching-technologies-wyatt-woodsmall-eben-pagan

PDF:

https://www.scribd.com/document/83924927/00-Advanced-Learning-Teaching-Summaries

 

 

 

Edited March 1 by KoryKat

[Rigel]

Devoting my life to mastery & learning is the best decision I've made so far in this life. You're right it truly never ends.

The journey is the destination. That's another true cliché to add to the list!

I am 10 years ahead of you in the skill you are learning right now & I still feel like a kid wetting my feet on the beach looking at this grotesquely gigantic ocean. I want to be able to fully submerge myself in it but I'll never be able to touch the seabed where the depth is real😁

Edited March 1 by Rigel

[r0ckyreed]

High quality post. Bump.