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Habits or Skills
Decide whether what you're trying to improve is mostly a habit or mostly a skill: if your main problem is with doing something you already know how to do, but doing it consistently, that’s probably a habit. If your main problem is not knowing how to do something well enough, that’s probably a skill.
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Improving skills
The best strategy for getting better at skills is deliberate practice. A good way to work on this is to divide it into 3:
- Practice the skill.
- Get timely feedback on how well you’re performing.
- Focus on your weak points with selective drills and constrained practice.
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Improving a habit
This process has 3 main parts:
- Define the habit you want to form clearly and consistently;
- Condition it until it is relatively easy to maintain.
- Maintain the habit by monitoring it. If you slip, push to reassert the habit quickly.
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- You’re probably depriving yourself of something, even if that’s just a cup of coffee now and then.
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