The SECRET Behind Effortless Mastery
00:00:00.000 | The effort paradox is the idea that you have to put in more effort in order for
00:00:04.840 | something to appear effortless watching Roger Federer play tennis in his prime.
00:00:09.460 | If you're a tennis fan is a perfect example of this.
00:00:11.500 | Like his strokes just look completely effortless, but they're the result of
00:00:15.060 | thousands and thousands of hours of compounded, effortful practice.
00:00:18.840 | It appears effortless, but there is a studied element to it.
00:00:22.240 | Like you've worked so hard to make something appear effortless.
00:00:25.200 | And that is the goal that all of us are pursuing reaching that level of like
00:00:28.920 | unconscious competence in something where you can just do it and make it
00:00:32.680 | appear completely effortless to do the thing that's kind of the pursuit that
00:00:36.620 | we're all on and whatever our field or craft is, is to reach that level of
00:00:40.240 | elegance in our, in the way that we move.