Cultivating Mastery

by Brian on 05-03-2009

in education

As part of my initiative to keep posts here under 800 words, I posted a longer piece over at openconceptual.com — an idea I had for nine stages of learning. 

I also wanted to try publishing something through Scribd. I’ve been thinking of publishing my longer posts this way for over a year now. Thing is, it’s one step closer to print publishing (just hit the button in the “More” menu); there’s an all-around more permanent feel to it. I start nitpicking and one thing leads to another and…

You can see here that I fixed up a lot from the original. For longer posts that involved more research, the amount of time it takes to clean them up gets prohibitively long. I’m getting there…

Stages of Learning: Cultivating Mastery, from Interest to Creative Freedom

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Tagged as: creative freedom, learning, mastery, music

  • http://ruricolist.blogspot.com Paul Rodriguez

    Being a guitarist, I was prepared to comment at length on your analogy, but the comments there are closed.

    Out of curiosity, may I ask: do you play, or is the analogy intended to be abstract?

  • http://ruricolist.blogspot.com Paul Rodriguez

    Being a guitarist, I was prepared to comment at length on your analogy, but the comments there are closed.

    Out of curiosity, may I ask: do you play, or is the analogy intended to be abstract?

  • http://brianfrank.ca Brian Frank

    Sorry Paul I forgot the comments there are closed. I haven’t figured out my plan there yet (my original intention was for it to be a business-like site, I still might go that route).

    Update: I opened comments up at the original post.

    Comments are certainly open here: you’re welcome to go on for as long as you like.

    I play but I never took lessons or anything. I’m definitely not a guitar “master.” I’m probably somewhere around the “comprehension” stage when it comes to guitar and music in general. I love it though and dive into it with the same over-aged precocity (and often naivety) as I approach most things.

  • http://brianfrank.ca Brian Frank

    Sorry Paul I forgot the comments there are closed. I haven’t figured out my plan there yet (my original intention was for it to be a business-like site, I still might go that route).

    Update: I opened comments up at the original post.

    Comments are certainly open here: you’re welcome to go on for as long as you like.

    I play but I never took lessons or anything. I’m definitely not a guitar “master.” I’m probably somewhere around the “comprehension” stage when it comes to guitar and music in general. I love it though and dive into it with the same over-aged precocity (and often naivety) as I approach most things.