The steeper the learning curve… the faster the learning.
The faster the learning… the quicker the trip from A to B.
Therefor the key to the learning game is pursuing the steepest curve.
Instruction is widely believed to be the speediest way to get from A to B.
Instruction prescribes the repetition of “right ways”.
This explains why every tennis player and golfer and baseball player and footballer and basketball player and business person is trying to learn their craft by repeating the same “right” ways.
Let’s look at learning through a different lens. Every day a grocer opens her store at the same time. She stocks the same shelves the same way with the same products. Our grocer works HARD. She puts in thousands of hours.
But because it’s thousands of hours of repeating the same things… her learning curve looks like this:
But if our grocer learned her business differently… if she experimented instead of repeating… if she changed up her hours, inventory, placement, signage, messaging, marketing channels… etc. Her learning curve would look like this:
The more shots you take, the greater your chance of scoring.
Reps don’t steepen the learning curve. Iterations do.
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P.P.S. If you made it this far, I predict you’ll like my book The Art of Holding Serve.