Paraphrasing one of the most well-known proverbs: “Give people diving skills to have divers. Give them real mastery to have real divers”.
Mastery is one of the many yardsticks used in diving courses to evaluate students. And after the completion of a diving course, the same acquired mastery should work as a tool for now certified divers, to drive improvements for the rest of their diving career. But this only if the acquired mastery is of a high quality, and only if we are aware of this entire process.
Consciously or not, we always judge ourselves, asking “Are we doing well?”, even if only out of vanity and maybe evaluating the wrong aspects. But have we been instructed on what mastery is? Do we know how we can evaluate our diving performances?
We are not at school, with a teacher that regularly counsels us on whether we are doing well enough, achieving improvements, or if we are stopping or even regressing. Nobody will write a bad note in our diary or logbook …
But not being able to evaluate ourselves as SCUBA divers means that we are moving and acting randomly.
And what if the yardstick itself is wrong and inadequate? What chances do we have to find it out?
Using wrong measurements, we would not be moving randomly … we would be moving straight in the wrong direction.
Mastery is the topic of the free document you can download HERE.
Thank you for reading!
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