"I think one thing that's easy to do is to not see how much progress you've made," she says. "When i look back at my old thoughts or my old skills, i'm like, whow. I've really come a long way." You can start learning new skalls as an adult and potentially mastering something, becoming world class, according to the author.
With 7 billion people on Earth, it's incredibly hard to be at the absolute top of any field. In this episode, Steph and Calvin discuss what they learned from their brief stints of being "world-class" in chess and golf, respectively. They also dive into the 10,000-hour rule, mastering skills in adulthood, and managing your psychology along the way.