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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
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The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills
The wrong ways to practice feel right
The wrong ways to practice make sense.
Most of us have a ton of experience practicing practicing.
From music lessons to school sports, all of us have spent time
practicing, and chances are we weren’t practicing the right things
in the right way. In other words, we’re all highly experienced at
practicing badly.
Most of us were taught that to practice means doing more of it
more often. We’re told it’s about putting in the time and working
hard. Most practice does not focus on building individual skills
and sub-skills to 95% reliability within one to three practice
sessions.
And when we’ve been practicing hard but aren’t making
progress, we usually blame ourselves (or our tools/gear) when
the problem was actually too little Deliberate Practice combined
with too much traditional practice.
But there’s another big reason why
most of us don’t practice the right way...
124
The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills
The right ways to practice feel wrong
Deliberate Practice is always just beyond our current ability/
comfort zone.
Things you
CAN do
Things you
CANNOT do
Most people
practice HERE
But the sweet spot for
practice is at this edge
Many of us at least subconsciousl ...
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