Self-Improvement: 3 Steps to Becoming Great at Anything

Summary by Krater

Mark Manson explains a three-step process for becoming great at anything: learning the 80/20 principle of fundamentals, establishing a reliable feedback system while dropping ego, and putting in thousands of hours of iteration.

From the video

Answers: How do you become great at anything?

• Skill acquisition
• 80/20 rule
• Feedback and iteration
• Deliberate practice

What it concludes

• 80 percent of consequences or results come from 20 percent of causes or efforts.
• Editing is the 20 percent that drives 80 percent of writing results.
• Iteration and feedback are the fundamental basis of all improvement, and failing to accept feedback stops progress.
• There are no shortcuts to success, and mastering a skill requires thousands of hours of failure and iteration.