Investing Time in Deliberate Practice

The term "deliberate practice" is mostly attributed to Karl Anders Ericsson, an influential figure in the field of performance psychology. Deliberate practice turns amateurs into professionals. It creates top performers in any field.

Doing something regularly but mindlessl...

• Deliberate practice tends to fast track progress, but truly mastering a skill is a lifelong process.
• There are no examples of people labelled as prodigies that did not put in enormous amounts of deliberate practice.
• Creative genius tends to come after ten...

1. Break down the steps/components of deliberate practice.
2. Examine the difference/relationship between deliberate practice and flow (a high-performance state coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
3. Explain how you can in...