{"id":7,"date":"2013-03-04T05:25:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T23:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srinivasv.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2017-09-11T16:47:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T11:17:25","slug":"what-is-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/what-is-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiarity to Mastery – The 4 Stages of Conscious Practice<\/small>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Practice means conscious and deliberate action.<\/p>\n

Two words \u201cconscious\u201d and \u201cdeliberate\u201d. \u201cConscious\u201d means explicit. Not tacit. \u201cDeliberate\u201d means with a goal in mind. These 2 criteria are central in practice.<\/p>\n

Many people may enjoy writing or blogging. The question is: \u00a0is there a conscious and deliberate effort at using the blog for a purpose or making blogging itself into a practice? When blogging becomes conscious and deliberate, then it becomes a practice. In conscious and deliberate practice you keep aside your ‘interest’ and keep a ‘goal’ at the center.<\/p>\n

Dabbling is fun, but unless it is imbued with conscious and deliberate actions, it does not transform or become an integral part of your personality.<\/p>\n

Conscious and deliberate action \u2013 practice \u2013 can take place at 4 levels<\/p>\n

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Conscious and Deliberate Action<\/p><\/div>\n

Practice at the level of ‘familiarity’ means there must be formal exposure to that subject, e.g.: one should have read 20 books on the subject with a systematic world-view emerging as a result.<\/p>\n

Practice at the level of ‘learning’ means there is a conscious and deliberate effort at developing my capability set. e.g.: I should be attending classes regularly, or I should have a mentor, or I should be apprenticing under somebody, i.e. some conscious method of learning.<\/p>\n

Practice at the level of ‘engagement’ means I am involved in the study of this area all the time. I am concerned about the way I do things, I have incorporated my learnings into every part of my life, I write about it in relation to the subject or practice area at hand.<\/p>\n

Practice is where you have to be clear and tough. It is obvious that very few people will reach a stage of mastery \u2013 but if any person reaches level 3, i.e. level of deep engagement, of any one practice area then that itself says a lot about that person as a human being<\/p>\n

Thus, there are many levels of practice. But in all levels, a practitioner is one who consciously and deliberately intends to transform the state of his being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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