3 Ridiculous Popular Beliefs About Learning that Hold Us Back

Some ideas never die, no matter how little fact they’re based in. Popular misconceptions can be fairly harmless, like the belief that it’s dangerous to wake a sleepwalker (in fact it can be very dangerous not to wake a sleepwalker). In other cases misconceptions can be dangerous or limiting. False beliefs about how we learn [...]

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How to Expand Your Comfort Zone

This is a guest post by Marcus Taylor of The Musician’s Guide. Becoming great at anything often requires going beyond what others are prepared to do, setting new limits, and discovering new territory within your field. Over the past few years, I’ve become fascinated by the concept of comfort zones, and how growing your comfort [...]

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A Beginner’s Guide to Bike Maintenance

Have you ever thought about doing your own bicycle maintenance, but were not sure where to start? Or maybe you felt that you were not really the bike mechanic type. If you love cycling, learning to do your own bike maintenance and repairs is worth the effort. It allows you to get to know the [...]

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How To Brew Coffee Like A Professional Barista

This is a guest post by Mike Crimmins of Daily Shot of Coffee. Let me know if any of this sounds familiar… You like coffee, but you add so much cream and sugar that the liquid in your mug starts to turn a pale white. That was the kind of coffee that kept me awake for [...]

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Are Great Musicians Born or Made?

We’ve talked about whether or not the 10,000 rule is real and shortcuts exist to becoming an expert, but what about the theory of inherited talent? Are you born with certain “gifts” from a higher power or does everyone start out at the same level? Neuroscientist Gary Marcus set out to determine the answer to [...]

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The Ultimate Beginners Guide To Triathlons

This is a guest post by Joel Runyon, writer, triathlete and author of Impossible TRI. I spent about 5 years of my life wanting to do a triathlon. I didn’t know how to do one, and I didn’t know anyone who had done one so I never did one. I thought triathlons were only for insane athlete [...]

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Definitive Guide to Fitness Reps, Sets, Tempo, & Rest

Becoming an expert can be a serious time commitment and both physically and mentally draining. However, being Expert Enough means your smart enough to know that all you really need to understand are the most valuable or key concepts in a given area. Whether that be rapid language learning, nuances of the tango, or honing [...]

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The Direct Path to Becoming an Expert

Direct Path to Becoming an Expert

This is a guest post by Dolly Garland of Kaizen Journaling. A while ago, Expert Enough did a post titled Do Shortcuts Exist to Becoming an Expert?. There were a lot of insightful answers from super successful people, but it was one comment that influenced this post today. Seth Godin said, There aren’t shortcuts. Merely [...]

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The 7 Rules of Highly Effective Habits

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This is a guest post by Barrie Davenport of Live Bold & Bloom. I have a coaching client who weighed over 400 lbs. She never exercised and ate a poor diet consisting of a lot of junk food and sweets. She didn’t socialize much because she was embarrassed about her appearance. At age 33, she’d [...]

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3 Ridiculous Popular Beliefs About Learning that Hold Us Back

Some ideas never die, no matter how little fact they’re based in. Popular misconceptions can be fairly harmless, like the [...]

How to Expand Your Comfort Zone

out of comfort zone expert enough

This is a guest post by Marcus Taylor of The Musician’s Guide. Becoming great at anything often requires going beyond [...]

A Beginner’s Guide to Bike Maintenance

Bicycle Repair

Have you ever thought about doing your own bicycle maintenance, but were not sure where to start? Or maybe you [...]

How To Brew Coffee Like A Professional Barista

This is a guest post by Mike Crimmins of Daily Shot of Coffee. Let me know if any of this [...]

Are Great Musicians Born or Made?

We’ve talked about whether or not the 10,000 rule is real and shortcuts exist to becoming an expert, but what [...]

The Ultimate Beginners Guide To Triathlons

This is a guest post by Joel Runyon, writer, triathlete and author of Impossible TRI. I spent about 5 years of [...]