“HE’S A QUICK STUDY!”

Imagine this—you learn something and you immediately implement what you learn into the application that defines why you are learning it. You translate your understanding, belief, or procedure immediately into action. What then happens? What can you then expect? Would you expect competence? Expertise? Don’t. You will almost always demonstrate that you are still pretty inept. You are still unable to reach the level of performance that you learned.

Surprised?! Don’t be. You are still learning and immediately act on what you have just learned never immediately translate into competence. It takes longer than that. And this describes how learning works. This is how skill development works. It has worked that way all of your life up until now and it will continue to work that way.