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If you’re having lots of fun “practicing”, it likely isn’t actual practice. Most people wrongly assume that years of playing a sport will make them better or years of experience practicing will make any professional better but likely, skills actually slowly deteriorate from the moment you stop making an active effort to improve. Furthermore, for deliberate practice to work, you must believe that you can improve and maybe have someone to motivate you when you’re down (social pressure often helps). That’s probably also why test-taking is the best way to learn: There’s a clear goal, you have limited time to put in maximum focused effort and you get feedback on how well you did afterwards. But you can also implement them yourself if you make an effort. Ideally, a good teacher with a track record of getting people to achieve the goal quickly and effectively will cover most of these points.

Deliberate practice is targeted practice: You need to a have a clear goal, an overall idea of how you could get there, a way of measuring your progress and a way of getting feedback on how well you’re performing or whether you’re moving in the right direction at all.

how you can use the method for your own life. In this post, I wanted to quickly sum up the most important information given in Chapter 7 “Principles of Deliberate Practice in Everyday Life”, i.e. How to use deliberate practice for your own learning Since I’m very interested in learning, I loved this book. The reaction to Gladwell’s journalistic writings, however, showed that there was significant public interest in Ericsson’s research but so far, the public had gotten a wrong impression. Malcom Gladwell had (incorrectly) popularized the Ericsson’s results as “the 10.000 hour rule”. Anders Ericsson, cooperating with science communicator Robert Pool to make his research understandable to the masses. The book resulted from one of the top reserachers in the science of expertise, K.

deliberate practice a term coined by Ericsson to refer to the specific learning method used by experts to achieve superior performance in their fields, and mental representations. The long promised book review and summary of the most important takeaways from Peak.Įver wonder why you’re not improving at skills despite using them every day? You’re not using deliberate practice is why. The concept is discussed in detail in a highly recommened book: Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Have you heard of the concept of “deliberate practice”? It’s a method for rapid skill aquisition through practicing in a certain way.