The absolute best way to practice (073)

Deliberate practice

Deliberate practice simply means focusing on your weaknesses. If you ever played a sport competitively, you know that practice is important. And in practice, you don’t just scrimmage the whole time. You break the sport down into its fundamental components and work on your weaknesses before putting it back together in the next game. This is deliberate practice and it can be applied to any area of expertise.

If you are learning a skill, don’t repeat every aspect of it over and over. There may be only one sub-skill that requires the most practice. This is what you should repeat until you have improved. Then re-evaluate and work on your next weakest sub-skill.

Repeat endlessly or until you are incomparably excellent at the skill.

What I’m reading

Last week I read Ben Hogans Five Lessons: The modern fundamentals of golf. I found it in a little library mailbox. What a find! Ben Hogan is one of the legends of golf, with one of the most beautiful swings ever. The book is very detailed and time will tell if my game improves because of it.

This week I will be continuing to read The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. Highly recommend. I am on Law 33 and the book has been endlessly helpful so far.

Have a great week :)

Lucas