How Juggling Taught Me the Methodology Required to Master Anything
Without Dropping the Ball
Do you know how to juggle?
Do you want to?
Well, I have some excellent news for you. If you read this article to the end, you will not only know how to learn the art of juggling; you will know how to learn anything.
Without dropping any balls.
Okay, you will probably drop a few. So practice with tennis balls instead of, say, eggs or hand grenades. Safety first, right?
But what does juggling have to do with learning the guitar or brain surgery? Patience, Grasshopper. All will be made clear.
Or not. But hang in there for a minute.
Learning anything requires mastering a set of skills. Most of those skills will be unique to the thing you are learning. And each skill builds on the one before it.
If you sign up for the brain surgery class at your local technical school, they aren’t going to start off letting you crack open a skull and go prodding about with a butter knife. You have to start at the beginning with the basics. You…
