Deliberate Practise: What it is and How it Works

Deliberate Practise: The 5 Elements

Don’t underestimate the cumulative effect of applied time. Investors understand the power of compound interest when it comes to money. The same applies to the time we invest in something, including our personal development. If we continue to invest our time wisely and with focus then we can achieve great things.

Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers: The Story of Success did a study that explored the lives of many of the world’s most successful people and looked at the patterns behind their achievements.  One large theme prevails: that it takes a concerted application of time to achieve anything truly great.  Gladwell estimated that it requires 10,000 hours of quality practise to become an expert at one given thing or become world-class in a particular field.  

The key point here is not so much the 10,000 hours but the idea of effective or deliberate practise, something explained in detail by Robert Pool and Anders Ericsson in Peak: Secrets from the new science of expertise. 

This episode outlines the 5 elements of deliberate practice and you can find out more by following this link to the website: https://therightquestions.co/deliberate-practise-how-to-master-skills-and-achieve-goals/