The Ultimate Deliberate Practice Guide: How to Be the Best - Everything You Need to Know to Improve Your Performance at Anything—For Beginners and Experts
Deliberate practice is the best technique for achieving expert performance in every field—including writing, teaching, sports, programming, music, medicine, therapy, chess, and business. But there’s much more to deliberate practice than 10,000 hours. Read this to learn how to accelerate your learning, overcome the “OK” plateau, turn experience into expertise, and enhance your focus.
What makes practice “deliberate”
- Goals - Has specific, clearly defined goals
- Focused - All other distractions are turned out
- Feedback - Is provided on how the task was executed. Ideally this task is designed or overseen by a coach
- Difficult - The task you are trying to accomplish is out of your comfort zone