Learn Any Skill Faster Using This 4-Step Process

Paul Ochoa
2 min readMar 9, 2024

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1. Gather Inspiration

Fill your photos and playlists, browser tabs and physical drawers with everything that makes your daily life more fascinating.

Whether it’s a movie you saw, a dish you tasted, or a soundtrack you heard — save, screenshot, copy, and paste.

These will be your creative fuel.

2. Recreate A Project From Start To Finish

From your inspirations, select a project and study its parts and pieces, and work to recreate it yourself.

For every question you’ll encounter, research solutions in the form of online tutorials, articles, and courses.

If it feels overwhelming and uncomfortable at first, that’s okay.

You can only improve once you start.

3. Get Feedback From More Experienced People

Whatever you’re working on, you will have blindspots and biases, for which you need reliable people to offer you constructive criticism.

If a feedback is objectively valid, revise your work accordingly.

But if it’s solely subjective and based on their “taste”, keep the project as is if you’re already satisfied with your progress.

Show your work. Get feedback. And use that feedback to get better each time.

4. Put In The Repetitions

You don’t get better with every project you start. You get better with every project you FINISH.

So put in the reps, the work, the patience, and take it one day at a time.

You can and will get better.

You got this!

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Paul Ochoa
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