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.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
How to instantly be better at things
bigthink.com
The greatest lie I ever told myself was that expertise would set me free. It's a peculiar form of self-deception, this notion that mastery somehow equals liberation. I've spent the better part of my life accumulating knowledge like a magpie hoarding bottle caps, only to discover that knowing exactly what I'm doing has become the intellectual
... See moreJust recall how cumbersome
it is when we /ave to think about what we are doing?learning to skate, drive a car, speak a language. The very purpose of learning or training in some activity is to bring it under our direction without our having to think about it or make decisions regarding it. The body makes this possible. It has a ?knowledge? of its
readwise.io • Willard | Renovation of Heart
it helps to remember that mastery is mostly muscle memory disguised as confidence. think about the first time you drove a car and how everything was overwhelming at once — the pedals, the mirrors, the turn signals, the cars behind you honking before you even figured out which gear you were in. driving didn’t suddenly become simple because the world... See more