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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

structured
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form of learning by doing.
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It’s a process of continued experimentation
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to first achieve mastery and eventually full
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automaticity of a specific skill.
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A 2014 study published in Psychological Science
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argues that it can increase our performance
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by 26% in games, 21% in music and 18% in sports.
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Here are some tips on how to do it well.
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Define Success and Drill Deliberately
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Define all the elements you need to practice
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to become successful.
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Then drill each element deliberately,
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one after the other.
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In Tennis, that could be first your serves
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and then later your leg work.
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If you want to become a professional barista,
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first perfect your moves to make the espresso,
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then your skills to serve the ideal coffee.
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Plan, Reflect and Take Notes
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Plan out your practice routine,
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for example in a notebook.
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After each session,
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reflect and write down what you've discovered:
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What worked?
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What didn’t?
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The idea is to get a clear sense
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of how a particular session improves your skills
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and then to experiment to find new and ever better way
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to achieve your goals.
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Go Slow
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To build a good foundation of muscle memory,
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practice slow and correctly.
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If we move too fast,
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we risk learning and internalizing the wrong skills,
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which can bring terrible consequences.
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To achieve mastery, our brain needs time to develop.
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So start slow and then gradually increase the speed
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until you give all you've got .
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Limit Your Sessions to Focus
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Deliberate practice is hard metal work.
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Limit the sessions to a reasonable duration
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that allows you to stay focused.
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This may be 15 minutes if you are younger
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and 60 minutes if you are older.
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A Cristiano Ronaldo
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trains around 3-4 hours of football a day.
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Young Shaolin Monks practice 2 hours in the morning
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and two hours in the afternoon,
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To keep their attention high,
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they switch the style of practice every 10 minutes.
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Maximize Practice Time
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Legendary basketball coach John Wooden
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used to let each of his players
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practice putting on socks and shoes
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so that they learn to do it really fast.
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By doing this, he maximized the time
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to practice throwing the ball
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and discussing game strategy with his team.
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Track Small Intervals of Improvement
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If you practice running 800 meters,
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count the milliseconds not the minutes.
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If you are working out or practice controlling your diet,
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measure milligrams and millimeters.
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The smaller the data points you measure,
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the faster you see progress
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and the more you feel motivated to continue.
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Emulate Practice, Not Performance
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The top performance we see on screens or on stage
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is the results of endless hard work behind the curtain.
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If you want to become as good as Pavarotti in the Opera
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or as skillful as Messi with the ball,
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don’t watch them perform,
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study how they practice.
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Repetition Makes Perfect
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In the 1990s, a team of German psychologists
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revealed that it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice
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to become a professional violinist.
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A similar study concluded it also takes almost
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just as long to become a great cigar maker.
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New workers in a cuban cigar factory
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take around 25 seconds to make one cigar.
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After 100,000 repetitions, it takes them just 15 seconds
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and after 1 million only 8.
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To reach peak performance,
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it takes 7 years and 10 million repetitions of
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the same hand movements.
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Not practice, but repetition makes perfect.
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Professional football teams therefore play daily
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what the Spanish players call "Rondo".
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Piano players warm-up with Scales and Arpeggios.
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Routine Is Everything
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To reach mastery, Young Shaolin Monks
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get up at 5:30AM.
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Then chant, eat breakfast
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and practice two hours of kung fu.
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At 11:30 they have a vegetarian lunch
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with no liquids to aid digestion.
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At around 3PM, they practice another two hours.
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At 5:30 is dinner,
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followed by chanting.
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At 8 meditation.
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At 10 time for bed.
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Us normal people can start with 15 Minutes every day
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and then slowly increase our session.
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Get a Coach
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The job of a coach is to show us our true potential
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and then guide us in the right direction.
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If you don’t have a coach, look for one.
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It can a teacher, a friend
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or even someone you find or follow online.
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For our favorite teachers and coaches,
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visit our sprouts channel page
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and check out our playlists.
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The Dalai Lama believes deliberate practice
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not only works for muscles,
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but also for our mind.
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He and other wise minds
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deliberately practice taking other people's anger,
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suspicion and mistrust
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and then giving them patience,
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tolerance and compassion in return.
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What do you think about deliberate practice,
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can we also use it for training our thinking skills?
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Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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