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always with permission from the authors and gives it your nice ensure for use less jump right in and start up I say in your life forming new habits train to be an amateur not in. Bert by nearly all of near and far die come today's top selling books are about how to acquire world class skill. Dale coils the talons code, looks at how deliberate practice is required to achieve greatness Joshua for shows us how we must match past performance platter, was to be any good worse. Tim is for our series is doing for hipsters what crashed eyes do for teenage girls, making promises of quick transformations. These authors methods work They are all dead wrong. They focus on techniques used by the very best in a field but what about the other? Ninety nine percent of us about your goals

A lot more like I wish I could lose a few pounds, or only to save money rather than I want to win the. U S open, or I wish I was a billionaire, but authors focus my optically on the techniques used by notable grades, because we all soon the gray one I have discovered a secret which, if we only knew, would ensure our success as well implying you know the secret sells a lot of books, but there are no secrets and what makes a steel jaw observe. Michael Jordan is not gonna help. You lose their spare time around her waist. Instead of wishing, you could be like MIKE you need to focus on and enjoy the small everyday tasks. In order to accomplish those long standing, stubborn goals, such as I need to exercise more and short, you need to become an amateur and amateur is a consistent practitioner of a healthful Abbott. The amateur practice is a behavior because they enjoy it, and then it becomes part of their identity like a runner who can't wait to hit the road or vegetarian prefers the taste of the food

is amateurs practice their behaviors for the love of the activity and require no willpower to make choices. Other sea is difficult to imagine that amateurs gain pleasure by doing things, others find difficult. What could you accomplish. If you enjoy doing the things you need to do the things you know what's good for you, but you dread. Doing, unfortunately, never see a New York Times best seller titled how to become an amateur but ordered the things we want in life. That's exactly the methodology. We need to learn. First, I should mention that these techniques are forming new habits, not breaking old ones. Next recognise that there are two distinct modes for acquiring habits and amateur mode, and the expert mode becoming an amateur is about going from doing nothing or very little to forming a consistent behavior change. Behaviour to consistently exercise me right, save money or- More fully enjoy time with our family require

forming new habits which, over time, give us what we want. In fact, even goals such as consistently deciding in eating right are too big for the budding amateur. You have to break them down into much smaller actions to form new habits in the graph in this post I define the stages of acquiring skill overtime, starting from a point of little skill we reach a point where we make a decision to start on a journey. This initially sound. Something like you know. I really need to work out more, but this initial thought needs to be broken down. to an easily achievable behaviour. If we are to become amateurs to be informing you habits, we need to find an mba a minimal, enjoyable action and Emmy is behaviour which is so is he an enjoyable that we do it version without effort and, most importantly, we can do it consistent, Our mba as we begin the journey to a healthy lifestyle might be I'm going to walk for three minutes each day in the

a sense of regularly doing our Emmy a we not only build skill, but we strengthen our willpower stuff he's have demonstrated that rewarding your brain with small success. Experiences bills, no power over time was the MBA turns into a habit. It allows for expansion is slightly more advanced behaviour such as walking for a few minutes more or increasing the pace. Through consistent, actors of the emir. Both skill and willpower are increased until doing what ones in difficult becomes easy soon, the amateur, running several miles per day? Accomplishing his goal living a more helpful life over time. We reach what for calls the Ok Plateau a stage where our skills don't measurably improve, but we continue to practice for most of us, the ok Plateau is better than ok. Just peachy is here where we are exercising regularly enjoying ourselves and leaning happier lives, having form new, helpful habits, some people aren't satisfy was being amateurs and they make a decision become

experts. Most of us are already striving to become an expert in some aspects of our lives, and I would propose that we can truly only become experts in one. Maybe two fields becoming expert requires deliberate practice. Competition and performance goals is here that teachers of experts the dodgy such as Covey for coil can be very helpful, is important to recognise a different techniques used in these two distinct modes of acquiring skill recognize that doing them in the wrong order, leads to failure. I am goals in competition before you establish the scale and willpower needed to sustain it will lead to burn out self loathing instead of looking for fixes and best sellers under and how to engineer your behaviour by recognising the methodology of becoming an amateur as an amateur. You can ditch the need to push yourself to exhaustion and instead create habits tat you do almost effortlessly.

Consistently in enjoyably practicing. These habits makes all the difference in a life. Well lived you just listen to the post old, forming new habits trained to be an amateur, not an expert by nearly all of near and far dot com and you're a spell

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