Comments on: Deliberate Practice

By: DP

DP — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:47:26 +0000

I realize I’m a couple years late responding to this, but I’m intriqued by the deliberate practice studies. I came across your blog from a web search on Deliberate Practice. I enjoyed your article and agree with your points.

I’ve started a blog (http://somedayextraordinary.blogspot.com/) based solely on deliberate practice and my experiences with it. The main idea is to see where it can take you in life.

In a response to Jo, I’m thinking about writing an article with your question as a topic – “Are People Born as Deliberate Learners?” Check my blog out for an in depth opinion on the matter . . . also, check out the books “Talent is Overrated” by Geoff Colvin and “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell.

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Stubbleblog » Blog Archive » 109 things — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:37:05 +0000

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By: jo

jo — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:12:36 +0000

Deliberate learning? Is someone born a deliberate learner? I am beginning to wonder. I have watched swimming coaches work one on one with details and breaking down the strokes, and violin teachers, and math teachers stressing the details and foundation all with my child , as she wants to be at a point in learning with frustration while trying to apply deliberate practice. Her style of learning is extroverted .

How does one acquire a taste for deliberate practice? Is it in the reward of 100% on tests , the perfect recital, or placing in 1st in butterfly?

By: (Short && Simple) == Sweet « London Coder

(Short && Simple) == Sweet « London Coder — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:48:21 +0000

[...] truth is that only Deliberate Practice will make you a better programmer. Only loose coupling and simple architecture will make a system [...]

By: Advanced Codemunging: A Report from the Trenches « Learning Lisp

Advanced Codemunging: A Report from the Trenches « Learning Lisp — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:18:34 +0000

[...] the point. Having Emacs skills did come in handy a few times, though. Engaging in such focused deliberate practice was difficult: I rarely came up with anything truly innovative or useful, but instead had to [...]

By: Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:10:49 +0000

Two other habits may also help improve your knowledge work:
1. record the reasons for a decision and write a prediction of the outcome.
2. Follow up and assess the full impact, comparing it with your prediction(s), if any.

By: Bolg - The Chris Blanc Weblog :: Defining task to stay on task

Bolg - The Chris Blanc Weblog :: Defining task to stay on task — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:17:38 +0000

[...] This all reminds me of an old study of what differentiated classes of swimmers, The Mundanity of Excellence (it seems to be readable through Google book search). The researchers found that swimmers who moved up in class did it almost entirely by how they went about performing their practice. It was the quality of their work, not the quantity of their work that mattered. Moving up in class could be as simple as changing the way you cupped your hand during your swim stroke, as long as you were willing to practice that improved stroke during every lap of every practice. ^ [...]