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Working on a newsletter edition about deliberate practice.
Deliberate practice is crucial if you want to reach expert level in any skill, but what is it, and how can it help you learn more precisely?
A thread based on @augustbradley's conversation with the late Anders Ericsson.
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We need teachers and coaches to give us feedback on how we're doing to adjust our actions effectively. Technology can help us by providing short feedback loops.
In purposeful practice, you gain breakthroughs by trying out different techniques you find on your own.
In deliberate practice, an expert tells you what to improve on and how to do it, and then you do that (while getting feedback).
Deliberate practice is possible with a map of the domain and a recommended way to move through it. This makes success more likely.
Many who start out practicing on their own need to unlearn certain habits. Learning it well from the start is preferable.
Fundamentals are needed for expert-level performance, and teachers help to do them well.
As you move close to the edge of your domain, you're becoming an expert yourself. At these stages, purposeful practice may become preferable to find techniques others haven't seen yet.
In many settings, the team coach also gets to judge your performance, making it less likely you're willing to expose your weak spots.
A personal coach can give you a safe learning environment.
A mental representation is an internal understanding of external reality. If you're an expert, you have a richer understanding of certain situations than beginners, enabling you to make better decisions.
Like master chess players, experts can think multiple steps ahead, hypothesizing what reactions their actions will trigger and how they will act in turn.
Experts are often faster because new information is meaningful for them. They can use it in a richer structure to inform their decisions.
Beginners tend to look at situations in isolation.
Looking back at how you performed and what steps you took, you can create new mental representations that weren't present while you were practicing.
You often plateau with skills you're satisfied with or find fun to do. Teachers can help you break through your current level by identifying what you can improve and how to improve it.
Beginners often have unrealistic expectations of how fast they can progress. Teachers do know what's realistic (through their experience) and let their students know.
You need to cultivate a passionate commitment to becoming better at a skill. Practicing a skill needs to be fun in itself to be sustainable, even though you will hit to unpleasant points.
Coming back to the 10,000-hour 'rule': only deliberate *peak* performance leads to improvement. For this, it's necessary to practice when you feel refreshed.
Sleep is crucial to hitting peak performance.
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Meanwhile
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Dr. Fauci: "The default position should be to try as best as possible within reason to keep the children in school or to get them back to school [...] if you look at the data the spread among children and from children is not really big at
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1) Learn Anything - Search tools for knowledge discovery that helps you understand any topic through the most efficient
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