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The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills
Unconscious/automated skills are often
the cause of “intermediate blues”
Intermediate Blues
Time
Ability
Getting stuck here even when we’re still
trying
to
improve often means there’s an automated skill
that MUST change for us to move forward.
Expert ski instructor Lito Tejedas-
Flores has been helping people break
out of the “intermediate blues” for
more than two decades. He found
that the secret to breaking through
to advanced and expert skiing is
about changing just one specic
previously-automated skill. One.
By the time most people are skiing
at intermediate level, this particular
skill is usually unconscious, fully
automated, deeply locked-in. Fixing
it means rst bringing it back to
conscious “inspection” so we can
then do the hard work of actually
changing it. (Hint: it’s about weight shift)
Example
If you’re helping people get better
at ANY physical activity, sport,
etc. you might want to watch the
Breakthrough on Skis videos.