Developing Skills of Warcraft takes time

Whether you are developing your skills for a game like World of Warcraft or you are honing your warrior martial skills, repetition is the key.   This is how we learn both mentally and physically.  There are those you can see or hear something one time and retain it for years, and there are those that can do something one time and be able to replicate the action easily.  However this is not the norm.  most people take thousands of repetitions to begin to make an action or thought come naturally.

This means focus, consistency, and dedication to practice.  Most education is build upon a leveling hierarchy.  Even games like World of Warcraft have requirements through which you must gain skill to move up levels.  It is the same in weaponry or any martial arts.  It is true, some things have more critical and complex levels in which it may take longer to excel.  But they are levels none the less.

I have been studying the first major form in Wing Chun Kung Fu for a while know.  And I will probably do a post solely on this topic, however today I want to discuss levels of education and will just briefly touch on this as an example.  In Wing Chun there are several levels of learning.  The first being form.  Basically you learn the action of doing something.  What shape does it have, what are the next steps in the sequence, etc.  Later you get a better understanding and search out meaning.  These are the two first steps in any education.

Think about when you were a kid and were learning how to write.  You learn the alphabet song, usually sung to the music of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, in order to learn the names (for lack of a better word) of each letter.  Later you begin to learn the pen strokes of how to write that letter and you learn the sounds that each character makes.  Eventually you being to put those sounds together to form (and read) words.  Now you can match up concept with form. You are learning the meaning.  Ah, but this is only the beginning.  The meaning can have even more depth to it.  Think of poetry or the philosophical writing of people like Sartre or Kant.  There is more meaning behind something that just the obvious.  This is seen in something as simple as a pun- a play on words. 

This is why learning things like game strategy (for things like World of Warcraft or Call of Duty and chess), or martial skills take so much time to really absorb.  At first you may easily learn the "form" of something but to learn meaning takes time.  And then to understand that meaning in a more advanced way takes even longer.  You must make it a part of you.  Action becomes unthinking but not thoughtless.