Analyze Your Past Performance
For skills at the limits of your abilities, it’s impossible to monitor your performance and simultaneously improve it. Record yourself performing the skill and review it after.
You can focus all of your precious mental bandwidth on performing the task and only later analyze the effort
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Practice Made Perfect: The 10 Keys to Optimize Improvement - Scott H Young
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Getting good at anything requires a lot of practice–but not all practice is equal.
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