Deliberate Practice
I read this article on something called “deliberate practice” and it was an eye-opener. Deliberate practice is very different from plain old practice. So what is plain old practice? Most people have been doing whatever they do for years or even decades. Yet most of them are not experts at their field, are they? So obviously, experience and repetition alone does not equal expertise. Ok, what then is deliberate practice? It has the following components: - Activity is designed specifically to improve performance : the key word is “designed”. That means breaking the task into subparts and focusing on the subparts that you are not so good at. If you don’t focus on your weaknesses, you are unlikely to improve no matter how much you practice. On the other side, aim too high and you are likely to get frustrated and give up. The aim is to identify something beyond your reach, but only just. - ...