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A Better Way to Practice
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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 means understanding that how you spend your practice time remains more important than how much time you spend practicing.
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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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... is by far the most effective method for rapidly improving your abilities at any skill.
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The Deliberate Practice Roadmap
- Find a teacher or a 'substitute.
- Assess your limits.
- Set SMART goals.
- Practice with focus.
- Get feedback.
- Repeat, while maintaining motivation.
Art / Design
- Look at an app’s UI, logo, color scheme, etc., hide it, then try to redesign it on your own from memory. Compare your design to the original.
- Copy a work you like by drawing over it, then try to recreate it on your own. Compare your recreation to your copy, where were you weakest?
- Use YouTube tutorials by skipping to the end, trying to reproduce it on your own, then watching the tutorial to help improve where your attempt was weaker.
Deliberate Practice
Deliberate practice is the commitment to a thorough concentration of training exercises intended to enhance a specific area of success with immediate feedback and potential for incremental ...
Types of Deliberate Practice
- Naive Practice: it is the simple repetition of tasks that doesn't require challenging the mind. It isn't associated with boosting performance levels.
- Purposeful Practice: it is a level higher than naive practice because it requires a bigger amount of concentration and constructive criticism.
- Deliberate Practice: this requires an intense amount of advanced training with an expert in their specific field. This is rarely done by "normal" people and it practice takes 4-5 hours a day minimum.
The Promise of Deliberate Practice
Engaging in deliberate practice allows you to showcase the best version of yourself. You get to learn so many valuable and useful traits such as patience, grit, and meticulousness.
Whatever skill or sport you want to excel in, deliberate practicing is the best and the fastest way to enhance yourself.
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Seek practice over immediate gratification
"If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again” is a popular saying but, to count as truly helpful advice, it should say: "If at first you don’t succeed, practice, practice, practice, an...
Practice produces greatness
Some of the greatest artists, innovators, and athletes of all time became great because of their commitment to practice, not their commitment to seeing immediate results.
Kobe Bryant, for example, was well-known for starting his practice routine as early as 4 AM and refusing to stop until he made 400 shots, no matter how long it took. He explained his reasoning by saying that “if I do this consistently over time then the gap is going to widen [between me and my competition]”.