Say I want to become a master filmmaker.
Try first Deconstruct into Sub-Skills, for filmmaking we have: camerawork, editing, storyboarding, script. You can work at each one of these skills to a high level one at a time, or because we Start with the full picture, then layer on resolution we know we can kickstart our learning into higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy by evaluating and comparing how these sub-skills integrate with one another to form the final product rather than isolated information.
In a sub-optimal version of this dream, one might try to master camerawork, or scriptwriting while ignoring the rest believing they must master one part before they move on.
A master filmmaker will use all of his tools to the best of his ability to express his vision of a story.
A master martial artist has fluency with all of his tools and can move through them to express the violence that he wants.
There’s a click in fluency with a martial art when you start to understand different positions in relation to one another. You know how the entire picture is coming together, even if your resolution for a specific part (bottom wrestling) could be a weakness to you.
The medium is the higher-order structure that organizes and integrates tools into a meaningful system. This is where we see Personal development is stuck at the tactical level within the greater medium.