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The Four Keys to Effective Practice
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 during 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 practicing to reply to a message “real quick” and end up going down a distraction rabbit hole.
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 you feel comfortable, increase your speed, but don’t lose sight of the quality of your practice.
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 mental component.
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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
... is by far the most effective method for rapidly improving your abilities at any skill.
It requires focused attention and is conducted with the specific goal of improving performa...
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.
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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.