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    1) The document discusses how greatness is achieved through deliberate practice, which involves setting explicit goals for improving performance, focusing on the task, getting feedback, and regularly practicing over an extended period of time. 2) Deliberate practice requires high levels of repetition, reaching beyond one's competence, and providing feedback on results. It is targeted practice intended to improve performance, not just repeating the same skills. 3) Research shows that more deliberate practice leads to better performance, and extensive deliberate practice is necessary to achieve greatness. Innate talent alone is insufficient for high-level performance.

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    1) The document discusses how greatness is achieved through deliberate practice, which involves setting explicit goals for improving performance, focusing on the task, getting feedback, and regularly practicing over an extended period of time. 2) Deliberate practice requires high levels of repetition, reaching beyond one's competence, and providing feedback on results. It is targeted practice intended to improve performance, not just repeating the same skills. 3) Research shows that more deliberate practice leads to better performance, and extensive deliberate practice is necessary to achieve greatness. Innate talent alone is insufficient for high-level performance.

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    What It Takes To Be Great

    You can make yourself into


    any number of things, and you
    can make yourself great.
    Anything is an improvable skill.

    The Expert on Experts


    Article and References

    About

    Take Aways

    Expert Performance and


    Deliberate Practice
    Innate Talents - Reality or Myth?

    by Don Campbell, Expand2Web.com

    What is Your mastery skill?


    Mind map

    For: Litemind.com
    Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0

    1) Approach each critical task


    with an explicit goal of getting
    much better at it

    Greatness = an innate ability


    to do some specific activity
    especially well.

    2) As you do the task, focus on


    what's happening and why you
    are doing it the way you are
    3) After the task, get feedback
    on your performance from
    multiple sources. Make
    changes in your behavior as
    necessary.

    Great book on Mental


    Models - The Power of
    Impossible Thinking

    Tiger Woods
    Michael Jordan

    What is "Greatness?"
    Great Performers

    A Formula for
    Perfect Practice

    Warren Buffett

    They don't exist

    5) Do those steps regularly,


    not sporadically. Occasional
    practice does not work.

    Targeted natural gifts?

    How To Be Great:
    Rising Above The
    Talent Myth
    http://litemind.com

    Explicitly intended to improve


    performance

    Provides feedback on results

    What The Research Shows

    More deliberate practice =


    better performance. Tons of
    it = great performance.

    There is no evidence of
    high-level performance
    without experience or
    practice.

    The ten-year rule.

    The Answer:
    Deliberate practice

    Hitting an eight-iron 300 times


    with a goal of leaving the ball
    within 20 feet of the pin 80%
    of the time, continually
    observing results and making
    appropriate adjustments, and
    doing that for hours every day.

    You are not wired from birth


    to be a chess grand master or
    CEO

    Many prodigies do not go on to


    greatness in their early field,
    while great performers include
    many who did not show early
    aptitude.

    An activity that...

    Involves high levels of


    repetition

    Vladimir Horowitz
    Jerry Rice

    4) Continually build mental


    models of your situation-your
    industry, your company, your
    career. Enlarge the models to
    encompass more factors.

    Reaches for objectives beyond


    one's level of competence

    Bobby Fisher

    Example

    The best people in any field are those who devote the
    most hours to what researchers call "deliberate practice"

    Why do some people work for


    decades without approaching
    greatness or getting
    significantly better?

    The Question:

    Most people learn quickly at


    first, then more slowly, then
    stop learning.
    Why do some people continue to improve?

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