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You don’t rise […]","datePublished":"2023-01-30","dateModified":"2023-03-01","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/#Person","name":"algorithmlife","url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/","identifier":1,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Person","name":"Dave Burnett"},"url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/learn-more\/train\/","about":["Learn More"],"wordCount":952,"articleBody":"You have to put in the work.You don’t rise to the occasion, you fall back to your highest level of training.Fear eliminates creativity and forces you to function at your highest level of training.Put in the reps.\u00a0 Do the homework.Focused practice, with corrective feedback, combined with discipline, will make you great.Training for something is the most underrated practice there is.\u00a0 But it’s not just any training, it’s training towards a goal.\u00a0 If Lebron James just randomly threw basketballs towards the net, he wouldn’t get any better.\u00a0 But if he practiced with focus, and that focus allowed him to get the feedback he needs to correct what he’s doing wrong, he will get better. The problem with training by yourself is everyone plateaus.\u00a0 You train a certain way, get to a point, and then you stop improving.\u00a0 There’s an S curve that illustrates this well.\u00a0 At first you don’t make much progress, so there’s not much gain.\u00a0 Then, with the proper training and feedback, you start to accelerate your learning.\u00a0 That learning and ability grows quickly, but eventually levels off again, and you get diminishing returns.\u00a0 It’s at this point that you have to do something differently.\u00a0 You need to train in a different way, get feedback from someone else, in order to get to the next level. A great example of this is Tiger Woods.\u00a0 He was one of the greatest golfers ever with his natural swing, but he plateaued.\u00a0 He was winning, but driven as he was, he wasn’t winning enough, or as often as he’d like.\u00a0 So he got a new coach, and they completely redid his swing.\u00a0 During the time when he was mastering this new approach, he fell off the rankings.\u00a0 He didn’t do well, but he stuck with it.\u00a0 Once he mastered this new swing, he was able to reach a whole new level, and he won tournament after tournament, championship after championship. Another way to think about it is the progression from apprentice, to journeyman, and finally master.\u00a0 You start as an apprentice, where you train the basic executional elements of whatever skill you are trying to learn.\u00a0 Once you have great proficiency in the basics, you move on to learning all of the finer things, the details.\u00a0 This part of the training is becoming a journeyman.\u00a0 You are on your way.\u00a0 Then, once you have learned the basics, and the fine details, you have the potential to be a master.\u00a0 But not everyone will reach mastery.\u00a0 It all depends on how you train, what feedback you get, and the master you are learning from, but with dedicated work, finally you become a master.\u00a0 You know the rules and techniques so well, you can mold them and adjust them, and make them your own. What some masters don’t realize is there are levels above that even.\u00a0 Think about the great painters of the world.\u00a0 They are all masters, but they have some of their own flair mixed in.\u00a0 What they realize is to get to the next level, you have to do something where you are an apprentice again.\u00a0 Leonardo Da Vinci was a masterful painter, but to get to the next level, he became a student of the body, even going so far as to perform autopsy’s in the local hospitals.\u00a0 This allowed him to bring to life the illustrations and paintings he created.\u00a0 Now you don’t have to go that far, but the only way that new information was relevant to Leonardo was it built on the basis of knowledge he had before.\u00a0 He could only move to the next level after having mastered the level before it.\u00a0 That is how you use training to get where you want to go. Training is important in other professions as well, not just artistry, or sport, or business.\u00a0 It’s use is probably best shown in the military.\u00a0 There’s a myth that I want to dispel about ‘rising to the occasion’ or some one-off unbelievable performance.\u00a0 Those situations are extremely rare, and highly publicized as a result.\u00a0 The reality for the other 99.9% of the world is in situations of extreme stress, people don’t rise to the occasion, they fall back to their highest level of training.\u00a0 That is why there are so many drills that simulate battle and combat situations.\u00a0 So people in those situations don’t fall back onto their natural instinct of fight, flight, or freeze, they execute on their training.\u00a0 They get the job done.\u00a0 They take the hill, move forward, face dangers, and otherwise perform in situations that would make an untrained person literally crap their pants.\u00a0 This also applies in business, but without the life threatening danger.\u00a0 When you’re in a presentation and some key decision maker is there, and they ask a tough question, were you prepared for it?\u00a0 Or did you panic?\u00a0 Did you train for it?\u00a0 Or not? So how do you train well?\u00a0 The key to training well is the discipline to put in the reps even when you don’t want to, or you think you’ve done enough.\u00a0 Have you really, or have you just plateaued?\u00a0 Is there more you can learn, a different field you can combine, or somewhere else they are doing things differently?\u00a0 Where can you be an apprentice again, that will take your mastery to the next level?\u00a0 You need to do the homework, do what’s required, to get the outcome you want. Focused practice, with corrective feedback, combined with discipline, will make you great at whatever you’re training for.\u00a0 It’s as simple as that."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Learn More","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/learn-more\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Train","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/learn-more\/train\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]