Match Your Practice to Real Life
- If you want to improve your practice efforts, get really clear on what you're trying to get good at.
- Academic skills often have well-defined standards for achievement. Real-life skills are often murkier
- The more ambiguous the skill, the more critical it is to move back and forth between deliberate practice and doing the real thing.
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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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