Sublime

The fourth level—the one any lifelong learner is seeking—is “unconscious competence.” In this case, you know how to perform a skill, and it’s second nature to you. With speed-reading, you would reach the point of unconscious competence when this simply becomes the way you read.

Mastery. There’s nothing like the satisfaction of knowing you’re doing something well, that you’ve worked and practiced hard to achieve your own standards of excellence. That’s what mastery is: the drive to improve our skills or knowledge in areas we’re passionate about.

Commit to be your best. Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work. This is, in essence, the path to mastery—and because mastery takes time, it takes a commitment to achieve it.

Basically, you have to be good at your skill set before you can expect to achieve autonomy from using it.

To become an expert, you need a deliberate strategy to help you understand everything you can about your market niche.

Stage 4: Mastery: This is when the transformation is complete. It’s where things become automatic for you.

And mastery means going deep. Anyone can read something, remember it, and feel like he or she has learned something. But true mastery requires three levels. The first is cognitive understanding. It’s your ability to understand the concept. Any of us can get it. And many of us