How to Level Up 🤓
Raptitude outputs some thoughtful and helpful work relating to productivity and learning. The post How to Level Up suggests this (cooking related) workflow enhancement …
Stock-standard advice like ‘Do more of something’ to get better at it doesn't fit well to all endeavours. Doing something better, means doing it differently, not (necessarily) doing it more — you have to do something differently (from what you're doing that has not worked) if you want to improve.
… Embrace the awkwardness of learning an unfamiliar but stronger method — as though you’ve never even attempted the subject area you want to learn — in order to level up.
Cooking preparation is an excellent example — exploring the concept of mise en place — placing the ingredients and tools in place before you start cooking. Using this philosophy, food-making has two phases — preparing then cooking. This new process may require changing muscle memory! But …
After a few meals cooked in the new way, the awkwardness, along with the urge to start before properly preparing … fades.
Levelling up can be applied to anything you keep doing 'sub-optimally' 🫠 instead of sitting down for two hours and learning to it properly.
Once you level up, you never go back down, and struggles that seemed eternal can disappear for good.
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