Hello and welcome to a another Monday nugget.

Everyone starts at the beginning. No one is an expert immediately, whatever you decide to do in life, a new hobby a new job. A new vocation, a new course, you start at the beginning and whilst you might have a fantastic aptitude for something and progress very quickly, you start at the beginning. And if you going to become an expert, it is commonly.

Talked about that we need to do about 10,000 hours of practice of anything that we do in order to become an expert. That means understanding that everybody has to go through the whole. The process of becoming an expert, how fast it happens if it happens in 8,000 hours or 12,000 hours, really doesn't matter.

The point is if you want to become an expert, become an expert and just keep going and learning until you are. And even when you're an expert, guess what the learning continues. This has been a saying that's gone around for a long time. The best time to plant a tree is 25 years ago. The second best time to plant a tree is immediately, well, if you want to do something and learn something, but you're intimidated, which I've been in the past because we're just not very good at it.

Yoga being one for me just get going. You know what slowly but surely you do get better now. Absolutely. I don't think I'm a great body type. I don't do enough of it to improve very quickly at yoga, but when I do do it fairly consistently, And this is a nemesis of mine. I just do not do it consistently enough, but in periods where I have been consistent, I have improved slowly at first and then slightly faster, but there are others who are much, much quicker than, I am and improve much faster and, you know, maybe have better coordination, all sorts of things.

it's an interesting thing. Learning whilst we all know that we can learn how often we get intimidated. If we're a beginner and the message today. Everyone's starts as a beginner. And we've been through many things in our lives where we started as beginners and became good at it. You know, as babies we learned to talk, we learned to walk.

We were beginners before this all happened at school, we learned to read, write as beginners. We couldn't do it at the start. So why is adults do we become so afraid of tackling something? Just because we have to start as beginners. Well, of course the big reason is we think that we look stupid. So self-consciousness is a huge driver to preventing us from going and taking the risk of starting something new.

But ultimately if it's something we really want to do get over that, self-consciousness just get started. And guess what? six months, one year, two years down the line, you will definitely not be a beginner. You will definitely know a hell of a lot more and be a lot better at it. And therefore be well on your way to becoming an expert.

If that's what you want to do.

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