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The effects of deliberate practice activities are cumulative. The more of a head start your organization gets in developing people individually and as teams, the more difficult it will be for your competitors ever to catch you.

…well-designed practice, pursued for enough time, enables a person to circumvent the limitations… and circumventing limitations is the key to high performance at an advanced age.

…continued deliberate practice enables top performers to maintain skills that would otherwise decline with age…

Just as improved methods of practice have raised standards of performance in virtually every field over time, they are also enabling top performers to continue achieving at high levels for more years than previously thought possible.

Eventually, of course, everyone’s performance declines. Even the most diligent deliberate practice cannot fend off the advancing years forever.

…deliberate practice is hard. It’s so hard that no one can do it without the benefit of passion, a truly extraordinary drive.

It seems plausible that the role of practice in producing the highly enjoyable flow state could be part of [passion].

Instead of compulsive practice producing high ability, high ability leads to compulsive practice.

…that little bit of practice increases the person’s skills, making it possible to do more practice, which increases the person’s skill level more.

A practice of verifying factual assertions reduces the incentive for deception, and your risk of being cheated.