Mastering Your Subject Of Study

Or any subject for that matter

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Mastery is about understanding the difference between broad but shallow and narrow but deep when it comes to your expertise.

Expertise is your classroom learning combined with your actual experience, and this is what is needed to achieve mastery. Mastery, then, is earned, not learned, and today we’re going to finish our series of articles on learning success for students by equipping you with the tools you need to master any subject — start with the one you’re studying, though!

Achieving Study Mastery In Steps:

Mastery: Comprehensive knowledge or skill in a particular subject or activity — Oxford Language Dictionary

Step 1: Identify the leaders in the field

The theory is that it gets harder to learn the older you get so not teaching old dogs new tricks, but that isn’t necessarily true, and I wonder if you could guess what the average age of Nobel Prize winners is?

Challenge conventional wisdom and everything you think you know, and look for others who have done this in your field of interest. If you cannot quickly find the thought leaders in your niche, there’s a huge…