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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...