"Purpose is a practice. It is something continuously created, not sought for".
JOHN LELAND
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Deliberate practice is focused, systematic, and purposeful.
- It is designed specifically to improve performance.
- It can be repeated a lot.
- Feedback on results is continuously available.
- It's highly demanding mentally.
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Teaching Others
Continuously quizzing yourself, something called ‘retrieval practice’ jogs the memory and builds stronger traces. The harder the retrieval is, the stronger the memory formation.
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