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Daniel Coyle
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February 4 - February 10, 2018
In 2005 Fredrik Ullen scanned the brains of concert pianists and found a directly proportional relationship between hours of practice and white matter.
around ten thousand hours of committed practice. Ericsson called this process “deliberate practice” and defined it as working on technique, seeking constant critical feedback, and focusing ruthlessly on shoring up weaknesses. (For
world-class expertise in every domain (violin, math, chess, and so on) requires roughly a decade of committed practice.
Students scissor each measure of their sheet music into horizontal strips, which are stuffed into envelopes and pulled out in random order. They go on to break those strips into smaller fragments by altering rhythms. For instance, they will play a difficult passage
“It's not how fast you can do it. It's how slow you can do it correctly.” Second, going slow helps the practicer to develop
when you depart the deep-practice zone, you might as well quit.*4
Glenn Kurtz writes about in his book Practicing: “Each
You can't fake it, you can't borrow, steal, or buy it. It's an honest profession.”
Small Wonders, the documentary film on Opus 118. Early
What skill-building really is, is confidence-building.
You must have worked really hard”).
notes that motivation does not increase with increased levels of praise but often dips.
It turned out that self-discipline was twice as accurate as IQ in predicting the students' grade-point average.
useful and entertaining source on Moscow's Spartak Tennis Club is in Peter Geisler and Philip Johnston's documentary film Anna's Army: Behind the Rise of Russian Women's Tennis (Byzantium
Miraculous Teacher: Ivan Galamian and the Meadowmount Experience (self-published, 1993).
