Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about

TEDxManhattanBeach 2016
Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about (script)
Summary
Don't be satisfied that you tried your best or you spent a lot of time working hard.
We need to learn more how to efficiently get better at the things we care about.
In our thoughts that we do anything, there are the learning zones and the performance zones. The learning zone works to improve our goals. It forces into what we haven't mastered yet. We can learn many things from mistakes. The learning zone maximizes our growth and our future performance.
The performance zone maximizes our immediate performance. It forces into what we have already mastered and we try to minimize mistakes. It hinders our growth if we spend almost all of our time in it. So this is the reason that we work hard but not improve much.
The way to high performance is to alternate between the learning zone which purposefully builds our skills and the performance zone which can apply its skills.
Additionally, it is important to emulate by finding members with whom we exchange ideas, by sharing what we want to get better at, by asking questions about what we don't know. It takes much time though continuing and improving them, and you can get better what you want to do.

Words in this story
stagnation / delay
emulate /  compete with,  follow