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Badass: Making Users Awesome
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Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra
January 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
294 pages
7h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Badass: Making Users Awesome
108
The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills
It’s not harder practice
It’s not longer practice
It’s better practice
Practice does not make perfect.
In the science of expertise, the form of explicit practice that’s
known to work effectively is referred to as Deliberate Practice.
Practicing harder and longer can potentially make us even
worse than if we did less practicing.
Building deep expertise takes work, but of a very
specic type that’s often the opposite of what most
people do when practicing.
109
The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills
“Deliberate Practice”
Worst. Name. Ever.
“Deliberate Practice”
does not mean
“Practice, deliberately”
Experienced Non-Expert
Expert
Both practiced, deliberately, but
in profoundly different ways
Mistaking “practicing deliberately” for textbook
Deliberate Practice has caused much confusion around
the signicance of practice in expert performance.
I did thousands of hours
of Deliberate Practice to
become this good.
I practiced, deliberately,
for
thousands
of hours.
Didn’t work.
110
The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills
Deliberate Practice is usually the best
(sometimes only ...
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