>>306830You're welcome
The answer there is recognising gates and plateaus of skill. What ability and degree of competence unlocks a gate to the *next* dependent relevant skill, and how far you can/should pursue it before diminishing returns becomes a factor, and what signals indicate you need to maintain your skill level, because everything decays that is not maintained.
Currently I'm working towards making good steaks consistently in a gas range - because I haven't had a gas range all my adult life.
The path is - make omlettes, by which I learned heat control and temperature management + an understanding of what makes a good pan.
Then pan fried peppers, by which I learned correct and effective methods for chopping and ingredient prep + purchasing and becoming familiar with suitable cutlery, because 'a knife' is not just a knife and there are wide gulfs between them.
Then - eventually, not there yet - custom cuts of meat to a specific grade, for a specific cooking strategy.
A big problem with western - and very specifically American/Taylorisation, is the idea that a skill can be taught out of whole cloth, that the necessary steps just need to be followed, however long it may be from point zero, to achieve a goal. Think the rejection of phonics because "Every adult just reads the same way and we are wasting time teaching sounds when letters are what matter."
This is simply not the case, the correct approach demonstrated by kaizen in .jp is continuous plateaued improvement, where some skills simply exist to scaffold the development of the higher order skills necessary to achieve the actual goal. I've recently Re-read The Puritan Gift which goes into great detail why the second method works, and why the first and wrong method became popular and entrenched.