How to see the hidden part of the ball?

 

Skill Life Cycle

I recently happened to attend a training program conducted by Dale Carnegie Training Institute. The trainer talked about a Skill cycle (shown in the pic )that says Practice is what makes knowledge into a skill.

Very valid point. I thought for a while and a question popped up in my mind.

 

The Question?

Is it possible to practice and experience everything that is needed for a skill?

I don’t think so. We do not have the time, the privilege, the resources, the risk appetite to practice ourselves everything, experience everything aspect. Give it a thought and I am sure you folks with agree with me.

To emphasis more on this point, consider a software engineer working on Linux development wants to be an expert Linux developer, is it possible for him to develop everything needs for his projects on his own. Just impossible. For sure, he will have to use tools created by others, he will have to refer to the experience of others available on various online forums to see how to fix a bug, he will have to refer to best practices posted by experts to architect his project.

The gist is that we have to look for external resources to gain experience at times to achieve the level of expertise needed to carry on with a skill. This logic is not limited to professional life, it does apply to personal life also.

 

The Hidden side

I was discussing this concept with a friend of mine and he gave a very crisp example to support the concept. He said, if you hold a ball in your hand, at any point of time you could only see the front side of the ball, the other side is always hidden. So if you want to have a look at the hidden side also, use external resources.

In one of my earlier posts, I have talked about learning from half baked burnt stories, learning from others experience, saving ourselves from the mistakes other committed.

 

The Solution

There are many ways to learn from other experiences, learn from external resources. One of them is to read books. I am sure everybody of you are aware of this and so sighed knowing what makes you see the hidden part of the ball.

So where do you purchase books. Obviously @ www.printsasia.com. that currently offers books from 15,000 publishers from across the globe and have around 2 millions titles available.  The prices are pretty competitive and only new books are shipped. Books available from U.S.A, South Asian Countries and Europe are shipped worldwide. Why not give the site a visit and see if it can help in our mission to unwrap the hidden part of the ball.

P.S: I am also exploring the site and this is not a paid review.

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