Deliberate Practice — The Fastest Way to Improve Your Skills
Design your practice deliberately, to improve faster.
You can become good at anything you want in life. You can learn any skill.
But you have to practice. And you have to practice well.
You may have heard that it takes 10 000 hours to master a skill. But you can try any new skill in 1 hour. You can learn some of the basics in 10 hours. You can become very good in 100 hours.
And you can become amazing in most skills, if you spend 1000 hours of quality practice. How far you want to develop your skill, depends on your commitment to put in quality practice.
What is quality practice then? There is no exact way to measure the quality of practice, but the gold standard for optimal practice is often referred to as deliberate practice.
What is deliberate practice?
Deliberate practice is the most effective method to rapidly improve any skill, and consists of intense, structured…
