There are two simple mental habits required to improve in anything:
1) Recognize blind spots in your knowledge or skill set. Even without acting upon them, knowing what you don't know is a quantum leap ahead of complete ignorance. Anytime you catch yourself accidentally bullshitting an answer at work, it's because this awareness hasn't been grown enough.
2) Fill in those gaps in your knowledge / skillset in small, low-pressure sprints. Make it easy on yourself. People tend to completely avoid things that make them feel uncomfortable or incompetent, so spending even a small amount of time trying to grasp something is a quantum leap ahead of completely avoiding it. After some time, this is how people seem to "know everything": it's not because they're an expert in all things, it's because they spent the 20% of time it takes to get 80% of the results.
Consistency is key. "Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years" - Bill Gates
1) Recognize blind spots in your knowledge or skill set. Even without acting upon them, knowing what you don't know is a quantum leap ahead of complete ignorance. Anytime you catch yourself accidentally bullshitting an answer at work, it's because this awareness hasn't been grown enough.
2) Fill in those gaps in your knowledge / skillset in small, low-pressure sprints. Make it easy on yourself. People tend to completely avoid things that make them feel uncomfortable or incompetent, so spending even a small amount of time trying to grasp something is a quantum leap ahead of completely avoiding it. After some time, this is how people seem to "know everything": it's not because they're an expert in all things, it's because they spent the 20% of time it takes to get 80% of the results.
Consistency is key. "Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years" - Bill Gates