How to get to excellence?

   When we want to learn something new or skills for us, the easiest way to get that is to find someone who had already known it or got it. Then ask those guys how to achieve your goal in the most effective way. You could save much times rather than learn it by yourself. The point is you would not waste time to find the right way to learn. People who already had achieve to certain level in some filed, they must have some kind of tips and mind they got during their learning process. Here the author called it “modeling”. That is a set of mental, physical and emotional strategies. To be aware of this idea, we could try to copy everything applied by successful people in some area from no foundation to excellence.

   In language learning, I used to learn by writing and reading. I am good at both, but almost can’t speak and listen to others well at all. That is because I accept the wrong ways from traditional school class. It lost the most important core of language learning, that is communication. Great language learner had almost different ways to learn a new language. They joined to a language community, and talk to people from the beginning of their learning process. Even initially they just can speak few words, however they are communicating by the language. Hence, they are enjoying using the language to meet friends, solve their problems in daily life. As time went by, they become fluent. On the other hand, we are still frustrated on how to speak the first sentences when we met the foreigners. Totally different outcomes from different ways of learning.

   In any areas of any expertise, there were masters in that area. We all know that finding the master is important if you want to get to excellence. But if you really couldn’t find the master to help, the 2nd way is to find the right ways and practice it day by day. Even you have masters to teach you, you still have to do it by yourself. Our brain is designed to learn new thing. We can learn everything well if we applied with the right methods, and trust we can achieve it by practicing. The beliefs is another important factor from the beginning of learning. If you don’t trust you can do, then outcomes will follow by your thinking. That’s true! When someone who had already something well, those told us that were possible for us. We would not limit ourselves to break our limitation.

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