The right sort of practice carried out over a sufficient period of time leads to improvement. Nothing else. (Location 194)
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Today deliberate practice remains the gold standard for anyone in any field who wishes to take advantage of the gift of adaptability in order to build new skills and abilities, and it is the main concern of this book. (Location 204)
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Purposeful practice has well-defined, specific goals. (Location 444)
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Purposeful practice is all about putting a bunch of baby steps together to reach a longer-term goal. (Location 450)
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Purposeful practice requires getting out of one’s comfort zone. This is perhaps the most important part of purposeful practice. (Location 483)
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This is a fundamental truth about any sort of practice: If you never push yourself beyond your comfort zone, you will never improve. (Location 490)
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The best way to get past any barrier is to come at it from a different direction, which is one reason it is useful to work with a teacher or coach. (Location 522)
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Generally speaking, meaningful positive feedback is one of the crucial factors in maintaining motivation. (Location 552)
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It can be internal feedback, such as the satisfaction of seeing yourself improve at something, or external feedback provided by others, but it makes a huge difference in whether a person will be able to maintain the consistent effort necessary to improve through purposeful practice. (Location 553)
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So here we have purposeful practice in a nutshell: Get outside your comfort zone but do it in a focused way, with clear goals, a plan for reaching those goals, and a way to monitor your progress. Oh, and figure out a way to maintain your motivation. (Location 561)
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As we shall see, the key to improved mental performance of almost any sort is the development of mental structures that make it possible to avoid the limitations of short-term memory and deal effectively with large amounts of information at once. (Location 580)
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It is possible to shape the brain—your brain, my brain, anybody’s brain—in the ways that we desire through conscious, deliberate training. (Location 758)
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In the brain, the greater the challenge, the greater the changes—up to a point. Recent studies have shown that learning a new skill is much more effective at triggering structural changes in the brain than simply continuing to practice a skill that one has already learned. On the other hand, pushing too hard for too long can lead to burnout and ineffective learning. The brain, like the body, changes most quickly in that sweet spot where it is pushed outside—but not too far outside—its comfort zone. (Location 839)
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With deliberate practice, however, the goal is not just to reach your potential but to build it, to make things possible that were not possible before. (Location 950)