It’s About the Reps…

Summary

• I had a teammate who stood in for someone sick at an event. They had no public speaking skills but learned quickly and got a 90% score in just 3 weeks.
• Sometimes, to unlock someone's potential, you need to create urgency. This urgency can push people to develop skills faster.
• When under pressure, people often practice more intensely. Instead of once a week, my teammate practiced public speaking twice a day.
• Acquiring a skill isn't really about the time you spend; it's about the number of repetitions. Urgency can help compress the time it takes to learn by increasing these reps.

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How To Take Action

I would suggest implementing urgency to unlock potential. Sometimes, we need a little pressure to push us forward. If you're trying to learn a new skill, set a deadline for yourself. Instead of spreading out learning over months, try to compact the practice into weeks and increase the number of repetitions you do daily.

A good way of doing this is by setting aside specific times each day to practice. For instance, if you’re learning public speaking, practice your speech twice a day, once in the morning and once at night. This repetitive practice in a short period helps the skill sink in faster.

I would also recommend finding opportunities where you can apply your new skills under real conditions. Just like my teammate had to stand in at an event, try to find small events or groups where you can practice. This could be a local club or an online group. Creating real scenarios where you need to use your skills boosts your learning speed and confidence.

Finally, remember that skill acquisition isn't about the hours put in but the quality and frequency of practice. Keep pushing yourself and focus on incremental improvements every day. Urgency and repetition are your best tools to quickly develop new capabilities.

Full Transcript

had a teammate who got sick and so somebody had to fill in for them at an event that we had and because of that that person who had no public speaking skills somehow learned how to public speak and get graded essentially a a 90% score in a matter of 3 weeks because they had to help that teammate a lot of times you want to pull someone's potential you actually have to like manufacture their back against the wall because then they will compress time to develop that skill I'm sure over the years span they probably would have practiced that speech once a week what they did is they practice it twice a day morning and night up to that time so the reality is a skill doesn't take time to acquire it takes reps to acquire it's just that we compress it when we have urgency