Repetition is the Secret behind Developing your Skill
It is often believed that skill is an innate talent, that bestows upon us from (or earlier) our birth. Many of us start blame games stating that we didn’t achieve great things as the skill needed was never in picture. I like to contradict this belief and categorically state that if a person starts doing things repetitively, he/she will pick up the skill required to perform certain activities.
I base this statement on personal experience and a simple catch phrase – practice makes you perfect. Although, I have my reservations on being perfect, the essence of the statement is what I am interested in.
For example, let’s assume that you do not know how to type. And, you start your career where you are required to key in tens and hundred pages of documents everyday. As you begin to continue working on your keyboard, you develop the skill of typing fast within a few weeks/months/(and hopefully not)years. What is the basis of you picking up the typing skill? Repetition!
This is true with each and every activity be it sport, technology, and probably anything under the sun.
I have seen sportsmen who could not deliver during the first few instances, and over a period of time, just with their stay at the highest league pick up things the way they never imagined before. The same is true with IT professionals. Why do employers go gaga over people with experience? Simple reason that people with experience would have repetitively done certain things which makes them an expert in the field, and could potentially do more work than juniors in the stipulated time.
Even the usage of brains – left and right depends on how often and how much is being employed. If a left brained person is given constant exposure to the activities of right brain, he is bound to start using his right brain and things start to happen creatively. I am a living example of this theory that I propose.
If you want to pick up any genre, start working at it. Repetition masters your skill, use it to your advantage. There is nothing in this world that certain humans can do while the rest can’t. We are all wired the same way, and things will take turn for the better if we start doing things that facilitate what you wish for.
I challenge you to pick up an activity that you know that you aren’t good at, and start practicing it. Let me know if a month’s time if there has been any improvement. I bet there is, most certainly.