Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

The book is 1110 and it handled in such way it is so cheap kind. I didnt expect this kind of delivery by amazon. Not happy to this much for a book in that shape.

One of the most basic and most important skills to acquire during your lifetime is: learning. A skill which everybody should already have mastered, where schools (and other institutions) should focus on, but most of the time the skill set is not mastered or taught. Mr. Velasquez divides his book into three parts, first the learning itself within all its depths and basics. I thought that I had known a lot about this, but I covered that this was not the truth. It also covers certain tools on how to improve learning speed, helping to choose the right learning topics and how to make best use of your abilities. Main message without spoilers: hard and consistent work, which can be supported by some systematic, but learning goes hand-in-hand with regular and persistent practice.The second part of the book covers on solidifying what was learned, on staying on target, collecting feedback and not giving up in the face of challenges. Again here, do not forget to practice, to focus more. The third and last part of the book covers the top league, becoming a master. How to become efficient within the chosen profession / skill, to incorporate the learned into the subconscious and therefore becoming a master. Very few will have the dedication or will and energy to become a real master of a trade (I imagine martial sensors or like mentioned in the book master sword smiths), for those who aspire these heights, Mr. Velasquez' book will for sure have some useful hints. An awesome bibliographic section will support further reads.Recommend this book for persons which thrive to become better, learn better and more efficient. I liked language, which was never dry, but always clear, the layout and lengths of the chapters which enabled an relaxed evening read. 5 Stars.

I purchased Learn, Improve, Master by Nick Velasquez during our present pandemic. Why not spend this potentially maddening time learning, improving, and perhaps even mastering a skill and turn a terrible negative into something positive? I’d never heard of the book, which was published just this year. I’ve read a number of self-improvement books though, and most are very similar. The best I’ve ever read was Atomic Habits, by James Clear, which I’ve used to continue my progress in writing, learning Spanish, exercising, and, since COVID in March, playing the guitar. I’d have to give Learn, Improve, Master a strong second place, because it has enhanced my approach to all of these activities.As the title suggests, the book is divided into three parts: Learn, Improve, and Master. The first two are quite straightforward, giving advice about how to practice, and strategies to improve. By far, the most valuable in the middle section was the part on debriefing questions in the discussion of performance. Even when I was working as a principal, I attempted something like this, which I probably read somewhere else (which is a problem when one reads so many books on a certain topic), but my approach was vague, and often haphazard. After we’d have one of our major activities, like package pick-up day or parent-teacher conferences, my associate principal, the secretaries, any teachers involved, and I would meet to discuss what went right, what went wrong, and how we could improve the process. At the beginning of the school year, when we all had the stored energy that a month away from school provides, it was somewhat effective. Unfortunately, once the school year began, a noble activity like debriefing was often overlooked as things tended to move faster and faster. Longer range planning and reflection often were swallowed up by the immediacy of daily life in a middle school.Mr. Velasquez’s discussion of debriefing is specific, brief, and doable in every performance situation I can imagine. I’ve even started using the questions to debrief after tennis, after daily guitar practice, and now that I’m tutoring again, in tutoring sessions. I adapted the questions Velasquez lists, combining some of the one’s he mentioned. I also added a question “What did I learn from this?” which helps me focus and reminds me that I should be learning from each of these activities, which I do daily or often every week, as in tennis.I also found the quotations that Velasquez uses to be inspirational. I’ve written them into the Moleskin notebook devoted to important quotations from my reading.The last part of the book, “Master” is really a happy misnomer. He may touch on mastery, but spends most of his writing describing the pitfalls that happen with trying to achieve mastery, and thankfully gives advice for how to overcome or avoid them.All told, the book, was a fine purchase. I read somewhere that one should never deny oneself of a book, if there’s even one idea within it that the reader finds valuable. (I checked my Moleskin, but must not have written down where I read it.) I don’t recall who said it, but I believe it to be true. This book, especially in Velasquez’s discussion of the debriefing process, was more than worth the cost of Learn, Improve, Master. I highly recommend it to anyone hoping to learn a new skill, or like me, attempting to relearn and refine some old ones.

Masters are made, not born.This book was a real EYE OPENER to me because it made me realize that anybody can achieve great success if they have the right technique to learn and master a skill.I have been taking notes all the way to implement these techniques in my personal life and the way I teach my students.The book takes you back to the basic and helps you organize and reprogram your brain in order to achieve whatever skill you dream to have (and how to evaluate if it's really what you want for the sacrifices needed)It also is a great motivational book because it makes you realize that all these athletes and stars had one thing in common: They knew how to learn and improve their skill and Nicolas Velasquez breaks down the secret formula.This book sums up many ideas and concepts from people who changed the world in their own ways and I recommend to anybody who believes they hold their fortune in their own hands.By embracing a growth mindset (the realization that we can change and get better regardless of our qualities) it motivates us to take on more significant challenges and improve faster.Overall, an excellent book that must have taken hours of research, I highly recommend it to anyone who "wish they could excel on something, but think they can't".

I bought this book on the Kindle on an off chance and this book is massively inspirational .WiW this book is excitable. It is really well written and I would highly recommend this book for the point it is trying to get accross and it does succeed. When I first picked up this book I couldn't put it down and now I just want to read it slowly.Really goodMany thanksWayne Wells

I very appreciated this book! I'm not that good in English but it still simple to read!Very oriented towards learning sports and not skills like marketing but still interesting