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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
specic type that’s often the opposite of what most
people do when practicing.