Week 6: Skill
Practice & Discipline
Published: 2/14/2023
Compiled by: Andrew Neyer
What R Skills?
Skills help us connect the dots. We can use our skills to perform, build, create, write, remove junk, and restore. Open your definition of skill to look for the expertise that you may be overlooking.
The Matrix
What do you want to learn?
Answering this question can inform who is suited to teach you the desired skills. In addition, by sharing your interest, you will likely see the doors to new possibilities. Lucky people believe they are lucky, so they see more opportunities. Bill Burnett says, "It's not about being lucky. It's about paying attention to what you are doing and keeping your peripheral vision open because it's in your peripherals that interesting opportunities show up not you were not expecting."
Write down the skill(s) you still need to learn or want to learn. You will increase the chances of being "lucky."
Instruction
Knowing what to learn is one of the best skill sets. We can focus on learning the right skills when we can identify what skills we need or are missing.
Identify what instructional format you prefer and look for training in those mediums. For example, do you like video, audio, step-by-step, guided tours, case studies, apprenticeships, or volunteering?
Preparation
Our techniques leverage upon our preparation. The more we prepare, the more assertive we can be in our work. Seeking clarity frees up our minds, and enables our hands and bodies to create.
One of the most important steps is understanding the steps. Larry Haun, a very efficient carpenter, humbly admits,
“Complicated projects are made up of simple steps. And what we’ve le’rned how to do, you can le’rn how to do.”
Local Vs. Global
Some skill sets are better used on a local basis, and others can grow into global skills.
What are you best at in your neighborhood?
What would you win in the Design Olympics?
Synchronicity
Synchronicity's success lies in a group's desire to become synchronized and the courageous patience and repetition to practice the art form.
The swimmers and singers rely on the routine as a map. However, the skaters form an organic dance-line to any soundtrack. This is the most intriguing form of synchronicity because the routine is absorbed. The end goal of jam-skating is not to perform for a judge or an audience; instead, it is to dance on roller skates' round-n-’round a roller rink while loving it! Often, the jam skaters are complete strangers, yet they can quickly form a tightly packed dance line because they share the same desire to synchronize.
Look for ways to synchronize with others around you. Your roller skates may look different. They may be your uniform, a mission statement, or your life goals.
The backbone of synchronicity is striving for interdependence. Depending on each other is the sweet spot. Interdependence is best represented as 1+1=3. It is often easier to figure out your goals as an independent, but when we choose to rely on each other and aim at excellence, that is where the transformation happens, and we can produce more than we can as single units.
“Re-improve what was improved for further improvement.”
– Tiachii Ohno
Context
Here are links to the media we covered in class. Please call me if there is anything you cannot find ッ
“Wax on, wax off. Wax on, wax off.”
– Mr Miyagi
Terms & Conditions
skill
the ability to use one's knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance
dexterity or coordination especially in the execution of learned physical tasks
a learned power of doing something competently : a developed aptitude or ability
Make A Chart
Compile Your Collections
A curated Valentine’s Day playlist for you ッ
This playlist was created by doing a "love" and "lovin" search query in my Spotify-liked songs and then compiling it to my taste. Always be collecting. Organize your collections into a searchable database. This chore seems like a lot of unnecessary work up front, but having a tidy personal library of your interest is incredible.
Workshop No. 1
Got Skills?
Take inventory of the skills you have and the ones you are suited to teach.
How To Learn Karate
In Sync
Workshop No. 2
Synchronize
Leverage your skills as a team to achieve the same goal. Explore the methods to divide your work into smaller tasks to be completed simultaneously to assist in building the LEGO sets. Time your build to identify where you can improve.
Use every team member to try and achieve your goal.
Assignment No. 6
• Bring a set of instructions with you to Andrew’s house (map below ッ)
1. Apply for that scholarship!
2. Research where you can learn the skills you want.
Questions You Should Answer:
– What skills are you honing?
– How do you stay in sync?
– Are you lucky?
