| Identify who you and society views as the masters / what "mastery" is Immerse yourself in their world and surround yourself with them on a daily basis if possible (where/how they work, where they train, where they hang out, what they do) Create a super tight, iterative feedback look where you can make measurable improvements daily to your current skills, ideally with a testing or competitive component with scoring system or methodology - trial/error and experiment, but quickly Debrief after these sessions on how it went, what was improving, what could be better, what feels completely off and difficult. Take appropriate time off to digest what you did and avoid burnout Supplement with theory, books, video review (if applicable) and studying in addition to training and performing so you become a student in the craft The goal is to get to a point of exponential acceleration and improvement to get you to mastery quicker by determining the pareto 20% skillsets and field experience ("inputs") that create 80% of the output value to get you to that 95 percentile, and double down on that once you've figured it out (and have validated that from the masters). I personally think chasing mastery without deep burning passion for the thing is dumb and a waste of time because most top performers are probably 90-95 percentile pseudo-masters anyway and just lucky/well-connected. You might hit a point where the masters possess something you don't and never will, so it's crucial to understand that early (like a physical or genetic trait that you are born with or optimized for idk). Assuming everything above is in place, and you have unlimited $ and time commitment to make it work, I estimate a dedicated and focused 8 hours, every day would probably take 1.5-2 years to get to mastery, but YMMV. |