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Deliberate practice is above all an effort of focus and concentration. That is what makes it ‘deliberate,’ as distinct from mindless playing…
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The reality that deliberate practice is hard can even be seen as good news. It means that most people won’t do it. So your willingness to do it will distinguish you all the more.
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Avoiding automaticity through continual practice is another way of saying that great performers are always getting better. This is why the most devoted can stay at the top of their field far longer than most people would think possible.
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Many years of intensive deliberate practice actually change the body and the brain. There’s a good reason why we see the world’s great performers as being fundamentally different from us…
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Deliberate practice works by helping us acquire the specific abilities we need to excel in a given field.
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Building and developing knowledge is one of the things that deliberate practice accomplishes.
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The first challenge in designing a system of deliberate practice is identifying immediate next steps.
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In all practice activities it’s highly valuable to get others’ views about what you should be working on and how you’re doing.
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…feedback is crucial to effective practice, and people have a tendency to misremember what they thought in the past.
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…the key, in all deliberate practice, is to choose a comparison that stretches you just beyond your current limits.
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