5 Ways To Achieve Mastery in Any Field 2023 (No-one Will Tell You This)
If you want complete mastery in any field, keep reading because I will share with you 6 tried and tested tips to help you become an expert in any domain.
But why read this blog if there are already hundreds of articles about it?
I don’t write anything until I have done my due diligence in researching the topic. I want to provide you with information that is not only useful but has the potential to change your life for the better.
After reading many books, I noticed a pattern between them regarding what the most famous and successful people do to achieve mastery in their field. I am confident that you will appreciate the methods I am about to share with you, and if you implement them into your life, you, too, can achieve great success.
Eager to know them?
1. Practice For 20,000 Hours
To understand it clearly, let us look at famous personalities who have achieved massive success in their field.
Sachin Tendulkar
If you go to Google and search “God of Cricket”, tell me whose name will come. Sachin Tendulkar, right?
Many say that Sachin Tendulkar has been very talented since childhood He is a very good cricketer.
That’s what most people think, But most people do not understand the fact that Sachin Tendulkar used to play cricket under his coach Ramakand Acharya from the age of 12 and learned from him.
Sachin was so passionate about cricket that he practised matches from 12 to 13 hours a day.
There was also an exciting thing in this, Coach Ramakant used to put a coin of ₹ 1 on the stump of Sachin And used to say to other students that If anyone took Sachin’s wicket, then he would get that ₹ 1. At that time, the value of one rupee was considerably high.
But if no one could out him, Sachin would take home the ₹1, and the word was spread among all the people That whoever got Sachin out would get that ₹1.
Which was a big deal and even today, Sachin Ji has 13 coins that he has won from his coach.
But how did Sachin become the God of Cricket?
If you hypothetically consider this scenario, Sachin Ji started playing at the age of 12 and retired at the age of 37. So If you have been practising cricket for 12 hours a day Since the age of 12 on average, If you look at it by multiplying,
Sachin did 1,09,500 hours of practice; as Malcolm Gladwell speaks in his book “Outliers“,
To become an expert in any field, you must practice at least 10,000 hours.
If you want to achieve mastery in anything, you must practice for 20,000 hours or more.
Sachin Ji had practised for many more hours than this; he practised around 1,00,000 hours, which is why we call him the God of Cricket.
In the same way, we look at people from different fields So, the undefeated champion of UFC.
Khabib
You must have heard the name khabib; He started training only at the age of 9 Now, usually, 9-year-olds will play with people their age, jump or train with them, right?
But it was not like that Khabib was so crazy about his craft that he used to do training with bears That video went very viral; if you have seen That, he is fighting with a bear.
So here we do the calculations and see that Khabib has been training for 24 years, and he used to train for 5 hours on average; then, If we total this too, the total is more than 43,000 hours.
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar Ji, who is the most prominent singer of India, has sung the song more than 25,000 times Asha Bhosle Ji, who is her sister, used to say Once she had said that this tone of yours does not sound right,
Then only after hearing this, Lata Mangeshkar Ji started rehashing it Look,
What is Common in them?
These three famous people come from different fields of life, But all three had three things in common-:
1. Avoid shiny object syndrome.
Most people have shiny object syndrome, Which means they keep running after one thing If they feel that there is a lot of money in the field. They start working on it.
Then suddenly, they start seeing money somewhere else They see success somewhere else, and then they go there, But those who are masters do not do this.
They catch a field and keep engaged in it Whether they see the result in starting or not, it does not matter. They just kept working to improve their craft.
2. It was their passion for their work
They loved the work they did. It’s not work if you love doing it, no matter what others say. They followed their hearts and passions, and it led them to success.
3. Practised for more than 10,000-20,000 hours.
Each of them practised for more than 20,000 hours. Only then could they become such a great master in their field
If you follow these three things religiously daily, Gladwell guarantees money, fame, and success will come in your life 101% you can achieve whatever you dream.
2. Write a Journal
When Einstein was 5 years old, his dad gave him a magnetic compass It is a magnetic compass inside which the needle keeps rotating automatically.
When Einstein saw that compass for the first time, there was a lot of curiosity in him. Maybe it would have come inside you, too; how does this needle spin on its own?
How does it automatically go in the right direction? He also started thinking about which force moves this needle from here to there.
That we can’t even see, so thinking this, he realized that some undiscovered force was moving the needle. So there will be many undiscovered forces in the world, but people do not know.
His childhood experience with Einstein invoked a great curiosity in him, And you can say this curiosity made him the master of his field of physics.
After many decades even today, we talk about him. Robert Greene says that all masters are always in touch with their primer curiosity.
Our curiosity is like DNA Which is unique to us, but as we keep growing, that curiosity sometimes ends because of the rules made by the school, college and society.
To achieve mastery, you must go back and see those things that invoked curiosity.
I will give you an exercise which will help you a lot. Robert Greene mentioned a simple exercise where you must journal for 20 minutes.
Practice: Write in bold letters above the margin what were the things that you loved and what the things that you liked to do when there was no pressure on you were.
Write down whatever comes to your mind for 20 minutes. Maybe you liked playing cards; maybe you were good at video games; maybe you loved looking at recipes; maybe you were very interested in fighting.
Just like this, keep writing whatever things you like for 20 minutes. This will help you reconnect with your curiosity.
If you want to understand how it can change your life, let’s look into the life of one of the most famous scientists in the world.
3. Reconnect With Your Primal Curiosity
Charles Darwin’s one of the Most Famous Scientists. When he was young, his father said that you could only catch mice; you could not do anything significant in your life.
His father was a famous doctor, and he wanted his son to become a great doctor like him. But Charles was more interested in nature, in butterflies, in beetles. He used to enjoy observing nature closely.
At age 15, his father put him in a prominent medical school, but he was not interested in studies and was also very afraid of blood. So, he dropped out of school.
Then took admitted to Cambridge and studied plants (Botany). He chose this subject because he was interested in it and was curious to know more about it.
After Charles found his favourite field, his professor Hensler who was giving him an internship then, went to work on his training. After this, he went to England and learned many new things during this internship under his professor.
Because of this, he made many discoveries and theories, out of which one theory was accepted in his college. Because of that, he also became a world-famous biologist who discovered the theory of evolution.
Charles Darwin is a famous name for a reason – he did two important things to get to where he is today. The first thing he did was reconnect with his primal curiosity. He decided to do what he was curious about, and after doing this, he found a mentor from whom he could learn as much as he could about that field.
So remember, friends, opportunities don’t come to you; you have to go to that opportunity. If you want to be good in any field, the best way is to do an internship and find a mentor who can teach you the ropes. You can achieve anything you want with hard work and dedication!
He will teach you the best of the best things in the shortest time, where you will keep learning many things, and your skills will also keep improving.
And in the same way, If you achieve mastery, then the money will come automatically. And that’s what Robot Greene says in his book.
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4. Combine Skills
Yoki Matsuoka was a lady from Japan who had been fond of many exciting things since childhood. Such as science, tennis, puzzle solving etc.
Growing up, she was admitted to Berkeley University of California as a fresher. She was not sure whether this field would be suitable for her.
But she still had to choose, so she chose electrical engineering. In her final year, she jokingly told her professor, “Sir, I had a dream since childhood; I want to make a robot who plays tennis with me.”
Now hearing that, she expected that the professor would laugh. But Instead of laughing, he told Yoki, you should do a project on it.
The professor invited Yoki to his robotic lab, where she could explore her interests and work to make them a reality. She became excited and started researching human hands – she was always quite fascinated by their dexterity and how they helped people perform everyday tasks. In the laboratory, she learned a lot about robotics and how to apply her knowledge to solve problems related to human hands.
Although these two fields were very different, she thought of joining these two separate fields together, but before that, she took her doctorate in neuroscience.
Because of this, she had taken advanced knowledge in two fields Because of her hard work; one was neuroscience and the other robotic.
She then combined these two fields, And from there, a new field started: Neuro Robotics. After acquiring good knowledge in two separate fields, she created a new field and became a master of it.
So, gathering and combining different skills is the fastest way to achieve mastery in any field.
5. Creative Active
The Father of Wolfgang Mozart was a great music composer. He started teaching Mozart about music at the age of four because he had his dad’s DNA in him. From childhood, he had little good talent in music. He also had an interest in it and used to practice a lot related to it. Because of this, he became a genius in music.
Once his father took him on a trip to Europe, where Mozart showed off his piano skills to the Royal Family and court members, which impressed those people a lot.
At 17, his father talked to the archbishop and appointed him a music composer. This means he got a job which was very good for him.
When This happened, Mozart Was Very Happy at First. He was getting a very good income and playing music for the royals.
But still playing the same music over and over again made him tired. So, he wanted to do something new.
But at one end, there was a very comfortable job that was worth a lot of money; on the other hand, he was not enjoying it.
That’s why he was confused about what to do now. This happens to a lot of people. Those people get a field in which they are very creative and enjoy a lot, But max people are creative passive.
This means even after being creative, they are living a passive life, repeating the same things repeatedly. That they don’t enjoy. Those people can not achieve mastery in their field.
Do you know what Mozart did?
Instead of being creatively passive, he became creatively active. He has finally decided to keep money and everything on the side and work creatively to create something he enjoys.
He quit the job and started working on music and practising more. After 20 years of practising more than 20,000 times, he composed much new music.
He made many successful songs such as The Magic of Figaro Don Giovanni, The magic flute, etc.
He gave many hit shows, which is why we still talk about him.
So friends, If you want to achieve mastery. You must be open and, at the same time, creative. You should be open to learning new things in your field creatively. This will maximize your achieving mastery in that field.
