Deliberate Practice: How to Do It and Mistakes to Avoid ⋆ Motivated Progress

In deliberate practice, you focus on strengthening your weaknesses. Dedicate a notebook to your practicing sessions. Write down what you need to work on and how much you progressed each day. It’s best to use tiny measurements so you can see even slight enhancements.

For instance, to advance your painting skills to the next level , break it down into categories like color theory, perspective, drawing, and composition.

It’s common for people to want to practice quickly, but this leads to adopting sloppy habits. The worst thing you can do is teach yourself scattered, inaccurate skills. Then you’ll spend even more time and effort trying to fix more problems.

• Choose a specific goal for each practice session.
• Break them down into subskills and practice till you get the hang of them.
• Practice your major weaknesses slowly and in short increments of time. Or however long you can focus on it.
• Write what needs work and what has improved.
• Keep pushing yourself beyond your capabilities, but not so far that it frustrates you.