Common platitude:  “Skills take 10,000 hours to master.”  So that means with above average dedication (1 hour per day, no days off), that’s 27.397 years to master ONE SKILL.  That is WAY too long.  BUT:  I believe that within all skills, there exists a core group of abilities—discipline, creative problem solving, fluid analysis (accepting the possibility of two or more opposing outcomes and simultaneously dreaming contingencies for each one), attention to detail, AND?  Discipline.  So—from this premise—no matter WHAT we do, we can constantly master core abilities, and when we switch to learning a new skill, all that’s left to learn is the outer technicalities.  The inner foundation is already in place.  

Long story short:  Pay attention to the “mundane” and hack your time.  🙂