[projectramo]

The issue I have here is that it’s not clear how to identify the mini games to improve.

This is an article of where blind spots might be but not about how to find them.

One of the suggestions is to find a coach — for instance online videos (not exactly a live coach) — but if you don’t know the mini games you should want to improve , how do you know which coach/video to invest in?

[zeptonaut22]

Ah - if you feel this way, then I probably wasn't on the nose enough with this specific point. I was trying to balance a few points (i.e. IMO most people focus too much on marginal improvements in skills that got them to where they are) and not enough on building awareness of what completely new skills they need to build.

Generally, my suggestion is "weasel your way into coaching from people who are both much better than you at the thing and can break down their approach". Neither is sufficient on its own. In my experience, 1:1 coaches can be incredibly hard to find in some domains (esp. professional ones) and it seems like most people find them once they're already showing great promise at something, which means that they're not at the bottom of the bell curve. That means the onus is mostly on you to get to the middle. To do that, look for people who have found more success than you at the skill and are great at explaining their thought processes: podcasts and YouTube channels are invaluable for this.

Like most good advice (IMO), this is something that seems obvious but is rarely practiced.