{"id":130003,"date":"2024-10-06T08:46:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T12:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=130003"},"modified":"2024-10-07T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T15:34:07","slug":"tap-into-your-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/tap-into-your-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Tap Into Your Potential: Fun &#038; Uncomfortable Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How can you tap into your potential? What should learning be like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Grant contends that to accomplish great things, you need to spend a lot of time honing your skills. To do this, you need to engage in fun, yet uncomfortable practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s explore this idea more deeply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-make-learning-fun\"><strong>Make Learning Fun<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Grant, to tap into your potential, you need to cultivate the passion and playfulness required to <em>have fun<\/em> while building your skills. Why? Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-become-a-master\/\">becoming a master<\/a> at anything requires you to devote countless hours of your life to practice. <strong>If you don\u2019t enjoy yourself while practicing, at some point you\u2019ll get burnt out and lose the energy and motivation to continue toward your goals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grant offers two ways to make your practice more fun. First, <strong>find a way to add variety to your routine.<\/strong> It\u2019ll be much harder for you to get bored or become demotivated if you free yourself to switch between several kinds of practice in a given session. Frequently varying your practice also increases your ability to retain what you learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, <strong>find a way to track your performance and compare it to what you\u2019ve done in the past.<\/strong> Invent rules for tracking your \u201cpoints\u201d and constantly seek to beat your high score. The pressure to \u201cwin\u201d motivates you to focus and try your best during practice, accelerating your learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grant explains that to add enough variety and exciting performance-tracking to your practice, you\u2019ll typically need to completely reimagine your practice routine. For example, say you\u2019re trying to get better at delivering presentations at work. Instead of repeatedly practicing in the mirror, you might decide to alternate between three kinds of practice:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To improve your speaking skills, you read the scripts of TED Talks aloud and make as few mistakes as possible.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To get better at organizing persuasive arguments, you start a competitive debate club with your friends and see how many debates you can win.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To boost your confidence, you go out to bars or events and see how many strangers you can talk to in one night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-make-learning-uncomfortable\"><strong>Make Learning Uncomfortable<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Just because you learn more when you\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/have-more-fun\/\">having fun<\/a> doesn\u2019t mean that the path to your full potential will be a walk in the park. Grant notes that<strong> the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/effective-learning\/\">effective learning<\/a> is fun, but it\u2019s also <\/strong><strong><em>uncomfortable<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He contends that <strong>the number one determinant of whether someone reaches their full potential is their ability to <\/strong><strong><em>stay focused on their goals when it\u2019s uncomfortable to do so<\/em><\/strong><em>. <\/em>If you focus on strengthening this ability, it\u2019ll pay off more than any other skills or expertise. This is because uncomfortable obstacles are inevitable on the path to any major goal. Without this skill, you\u2019ll give up as soon as you encounter these obstacles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, starting a business is a difficult, uncomfortable process, but if you care about your goal of providing for yourself and your loved ones, you\u2019ll be able to push through this discomfort and eventually succeed. In contrast, if you don\u2019t know how to tolerate this discomfort, you might endlessly procrastinate instead of taking action to launch your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grant breaks down the practice of staying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-focus-on-your-goals\/\">focused on your goals<\/a> into strategies for coping with the three distinct forms of discomfort on the path to mastery. Let\u2019s discuss these kinds of discomfort and explain how to overcome them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-discomfort-1-making-mistakes\">Discomfort #1: Making Mistakes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The first kind of discomfort you must overcome to stay focused on your goals is <em>making painful mistakes<\/em>, argues Grant. Most learners do whatever they can to avoid awkward, uncomfortable failures when acquiring a new skill. However, doing so sets them up for inevitable failure. Why? <strong>To learn anything, you have to practice it before you\u2019re good at it.<\/strong> This is naturally uncomfortable and sometimes downright embarrassing, so most learners avoid this kind of practice. They prepare indefinitely or try to teach themselves solely through abstract theory, in hopes that they can become competent without trying and failing along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-discomfort-2-acknowledging-your-flaws\">Discomfort #2: Acknowledging Your Flaws<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The second kind of discomfort you must overcome to stay focused on your goals is <em>acknowledging your flaws<\/em>. Grant explains that many people suffer from perfectionism, which counterintuitively prevents them from doing their best work. <strong>When you aim to create flawless work, you exhaust yourself trying to fix unimportant problems that don\u2019t need to be fixed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-discomfort-3-proving-yourself-wrong\">Discomfort #3: Proving Yourself Wrong<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The third kind of discomfort you must overcome to stay focused on your goals is <em>proving yourself wrong<\/em>. Grant contends that <strong>to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/reach-your-potential\/\">reach your full potential<\/a>, you have to actively seek out errors in your thinking and identify aspects of your work that you could do better.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can you tap into your potential? What should learning be like? 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