The mountain is too big to digest, too big to understand. But if you look closely, you’ll see the hill, the footpath, the peaks and the forest. Instead of seeing a mountain, you see each of these checkpoints which make it up.

Skills such as “Building a House” or “business” Traits such as Charisma, Emotional Intelligence, (Operationalizing Emotion)

Break down the big fuzzy picture into smaller, higher resolution components.

Learning a language, to most, is this nebulous mountain of a task, but really it’s just Vocabulary bricks, some grammar mortar, and then you have a tiny wall to hide away from native speakers with.

Reference

The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition by Peter Hollins Pareto’s Principle Operationalizing Emotion