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Deliberate Practice
Highly structured with the goal to improve performance Choose specific weaknesses, monitor and improve through regimens Requires effort, not enjoyable. Only motivation is for performance improvement
Partaking in deliberate practice helps us refine our skills and work on areas for improvement. Habits + Deliberate Practice = Mastery and Success We engage in deliberate practice when:
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Our attention is fully focused on a specific skill we’re trying to improve or an idea you’re trying to master
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We receive feedback of our results so we can correct your approach
- Helps us stay productive with our efforts
Steps
- Know the science behind it
- A clearly defined stretch goal
- Full concentration and effort
- Immediate and informative feedback
- Repetition with reflection and refinement
- Make deliberate practice a habit
- Incorporate it into your daily routine
- Change the way you experience it
- Switch up the location, the time
Benefits
- Deliberate practice helps us improve our skills CEOs and Deep Work
- CEO’s must possess the opposite skill, the ability to multitask and efficiently manage others to do the deep thinking
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