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Micromastery

Learn Small, Learn Fast, and Unlock Your Potential to Achieve Anything

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Want to be a lifelong learner? Think small.
Forget spending 10,000 hours in the pursuit of perfecting just one thing. The true path to success and achievement lies in the pursuit of perfecting lots and lots of small things—for a big payoff.
Combining positive psychology, neuroscience, self-help and more, this delightfully illuminating book encourages us to circumvent all the reasons we "can't" learn and grow (we're too busy, it's too complicated, we're not experts, we didn't start when we were young) — by tackling small, satisfying skills.
Wish you were a seasoned chef? Learn to make a perfect omelette. Dream of being a racecar driver? Perfect a handbrake turn. Wish you could draw? Make Zen circles your first challenge. These small, doable tasks offer a big payoff — and motivate us to keep learning and growing, with payoffs that include a boost in optimism, confidence, memory, cognitive skills, and more.
Filled with surprising insights and even a compendium of micromastery skills to try yourself, this engaging and inspiring guide reminds us of the simple joy of learning — and opens the door to limitless, lifelong achievement, one small step at a time.
Micromasteries presented in the book (with illustrations) include: Learn How to Climb a Rope, Surf Standing Up, Talk for Fifteen Minutes about Any Subject, Bake Artisan Bread, Juggle Four Balls, Learn to Read Japanese in Three Hours, and more.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 9, 2017
      According to this enjoyably and infectiously enthusiastic self-help manual from Twigger (Red Nile), the key to skill acquisition is to focus on “micromastery,” or the mastering of small, attainable tasks. A micromastery is “complete in itself, but connected to a greater field”; the author compares micromastering a task to making an omelet, which is cooking but not the whole of cookery. Developing micromasteries, Twigger writes, encourages brain plasticity, self-confidence, and time spent in the “flow state” of being fully immersed in an activity and unconscious of outside distractions. To the author, humans are “polymathic by nature,” yet human cultures tend to overemphasize specialization. He writes with verve and has a knack for the illustrative example. For instance, to demonstrate that micromastery in one area can inspire advances in another, Twigger writes that Alexis Carrel, the 1912 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, learned from “his lace-making mother how to stitch incredibly tiny and intricate patterns” and later applied this ability to new advances in surgery. The book’s largest section describes a variety of possible micromasteries to develop, with instructions. Readers interested in expanding their skill-set—whether that means finding the depth of a well, chopping a log into firewood, surfing standing up, or singing even if tone-deaf—will profit from this amusing book.

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