When striving to be “unconscious” serves you

The person who has access to his unconscious processes and mines them without getting mired in them can try new approaches, can begin to see things in new ways, and, perhaps, can achieve mastery of his pursuits.

Learning in the early phases of a skill is an act of accumulation. You acquire new facts, knowledge, and skills to handle problems you didn’t know how to solve before. Getting better, however, increasingly becomes an act of unlearning; not only must you learn to solve problems you couldn’t before, you must unlearn stale and ineffective approaches f

If you can focus hard on something for at least a few hours per day for several years, you will get good at it. The main obstacle to doing so is being a poorly-designed meat machine, beset by anxiety, doubt, frustration, depression, arrogance etc. So I've come to believe that managing those emotions is the main component of being good at

Well, there are ultimately four stages to learning any new skill or habit. 1.Unconscious incompetence—when you’re doing something wrong and you don’t know you’re doing it wrong 2.Conscious incompetence—when you’re doing something wrong and you know you’re doing it wrong 3.Conscious competence—when you’re doing something right but you have to consci