“Going beyond the question of specific innate gifts, even the general abilities that we typically believe characterize the greats are not what we think. Some researchers now argue that specifically targeted innate abilities are simply fiction.” They are certainly not enough to explain the achievements of such people-and that’s if these gifts exist at all. “The gifts possessed by the best performers are not at all what we think they are. The best have very high levels of domain-specific knowledge.Most avoid it completely because it is too challenging. This type of practice is so mentally challenging that even the best can only do it for 60-90 minutes.feedback on results is continuously available.identifying certain sharply defined elements of performance that need to be improved, and then working intently on them specifically to improve performance.

Deliberate practice is a specific type of practice that consists of:.Many years of “deliberate practice” is a key to individual success.It should certainly give one pause about calling someone “talented”, while ignoring the decades of hard work they did to become talented. While I believe that Colvin over-generalizes the importance of “deliberate practice” for success from violins and chess to all domains, it clearly does play an important role. Topic of BookĬolvin argues that “deliberate practice” is the key to individual achievement.

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