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The Four Keys to Effective Practice
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Minimize distractions
Don't leave your phone and computer within arm’s reach during practice sessions.
Put them where you can’t see or hear any notifications so you won’t be tempted to stop ...
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Focus on quality
Start slow if you’re new to what you’re practicing so you can make sure you’re doing quality work, like landing one dance move well before moving onto the rest of the routine.
Once y...
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Divide your practice into sessions
Give yourself breaks in between practice sessions.
Even professional athletes and performers take time between sessions to recharge so they can maintain the right quality level d...
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Use your imagination
Run through your dance moves, speech, or piece of music in your imagination when you’re not physically practicing.
This can actually help you improve since many skills have a heavy m...
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Mastering any skill takes practice
Practice is the repetition of an action with the goal of improvement. It helps us perform with more ease, speed, and confidence.
Mastering any physical skill takes practice. And it ...
Effective practice
It's consistent, intensely focused, and targets content or weaknesses that lie at the edge of one’s current abilities.
Focus on the task at hand
Minimize potential distractions by turning off the computer or TV and putting your cell phone on airplane mode.
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Deliberate Practice
An active and thoughtful process of analyzing what went wrong, why it happened, and how you can produce different results the next time.
It also ...
What Deliberate Practice Means
Deliberate practice involves:
- Repetition of small and very specific sections of a skill instead of just playing through
- Monitoring one's performance - in real-time and via recordings - continually looking for new ways to improve.
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Learning Something New
When we are learning a new skill, practicing is key, but what's more important is the way we practice and the variation we bring in the practice.
Practicing with Variation
Making the conditions slightly different while practicing improves our skills faster.
The modification between two practice moves needs to be subtle, not drastic.
How to Learn a New Skill
Try practicing differently, making small but smart changes, spacing the practice sessions.
A waiting period internalizes your practice. It makes you evaluate the results, focusing on what works and discarding what does not work. Constant modification and refinement, along with a 'cooling-off' period sets the skill properly.