Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - The Key to Mastery

Episode Date: May 22, 2020

In this episode I discuss a commonly misunderstood truth about mastery: Mastery isn't achieved by setting one's target on perfection, it's achieved by allowing yourself to suck. Counterintuitive? You bet.  But the science has my back. Studies show that those who have both the courage and willingness to increase output knowing their product isn't perfect maintain a significant advantage.  Each rep allows a learning experience and, while sometimes not identifiable in the moment, ultimately propels the creator to a new level of excellence. Perfection is a crutch.  It inhibits the growth that execution encourages.  So, whatever your goal, start "shooting on net." There is no perfect shot...but the more you shoot, the better, more skilled you'll become...not to mention, the better the odds you'll have of putting points on the board.

Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Panero. In this episode, we're going to talk about the idea of shots on net, or how it's not about perfection, but the science actually supports that it's repetition that brings mastery. So shots on net. Today we're going to talk about how it is the quantity of attempts, the quantity of shots taken to define mastery over a prolonged period of time, not prolonged concentrated effort on one thing, right? Making this one thing perfect and getting it out to the world. I'll talk about a few studies that support the fact that, no, it's not about making this one thing perfect. It's about,

I say courage, right? The courage and the discipline and the trust to throw it out knowing it's not the best, but that it's a step on a larger staircase that you need to step on to get better. right it's not about perfection it's about repetition throwing things against a wall seeing how it responds collecting the pieces and throwing again and again and again so i had a chance to talk about this a little bit last night and there are a few examples of this um james clear talks about it in atomic habits basically he says there are there's a class with two groups of film students. And one group was only supposed to have one submission, right?

Take one picture but make it the best they could. The other group, essentially over the course of the semester, were supposed to take a bunch. And so it was more quantity versus quality. And at the end of this semester, the group that took the most pictures was far and away better than the one that took that one and made it perfect. It's just impossible because it lacks the experiences.

It lacks the knowledge of doing something poorly and learning from it. I mentioned this week I've been talking a lot about Drive by Daniel Pink. Well, in his interview, he's actually where I'm grabbing this shots on net concept from. It's the last time I heard it, right? And he's talking about the way he looks at life that it's not about this perfect execution, but you shoot, you shoot, you shoot, and you see what happens. Well, in his book, Drive, he talks about art students and how, you know, it's through the aggregate, right? So, like, the students continually put out work, and the more they put out, the more likely it is that one is going to hit.

One is going to have, you know, a big audience appeal. But you don't get that with one, right? You put out one, the odds aren't good. Ten, the odds aren't good. 100, okay, they're getting better. a thousand now we're talking right you're increasing the probability that you're going to have one piece of work that truly makes an impact whether it's commercially or whatever the case is man as a youtube creator i can relate to this right it's just continual output um and ultimately you're

increasing the odds that one catches on if you sit you know in your studio for a year creating okay maybe it'll be a little bit better than it would have been but you're a hundred video short by the time you release it, right? So that is the idea that life is not about perfection. It's having the courage, and I don't want to underestimate that. It's not an easy thing to do. There's a vulnerability to it. There's a vulnerability to creating, knowing that it's not amazing, knowing that there are people that are better than you at what you do and more successful in particular ventures, but you're going to do it anyway because you understand in the long game, the long play, it's what you need. And you'll ultimately get where you're going. So,

hey, today let's take some shots on net. I hope this video, this podcast is adding value if it is, make sure you subscribe, comment, can't comment on a podcast, but rate and review. It helps me get this out to the world. And guys, I appreciate that more than you know. Have an amazing weekend. I will catch you tomorrow.