The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of…

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

— Matthew Syed

“the differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance in a specific domain.”

— Cal Newport

“the differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance in a specific domain.” American”

— Cal Newport

Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

— K. Anders Ericsson

“Even supermotivated people who’re working to exhaustion may not be doing deliberate practice. For instance, when a Japanese rowing team invited Olympic gold medalist…

— Angela Duckworth

“Malcolm Gladwell showed us in Outliers, research led by psychologist Anders Ericsson reveals that attaining expertise in a domain typically requires ten thousand hours…

— Adam M. Grant

“craft-centric.” Getting better and better at what I did became what mattered most, and getting better required the strain of deliberate practice. This is…

— Cal Newport

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

— Martin Seligman

“deliberate practice” to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an “activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose…

— Cal Newport

“When you adopt a productivity mindset, however, deliberate practice-inducing tasks are often sidestepped, as the ambiguous path toward their completion, when combined with the…

— Anonymous

“Here’s the routine: Once a week I require myself to summarize in my “bible” a paper I think might be relevant to my research.…

— Cal Newport

“if it’s rare and valuable, it’s not easy to get. This insight brought me into the world of performance science, where I encountered the…

— Cal Newport

“Another deliberate-practice routine was the introduction of my hour tally—a sheet of paper I mounted behind my desk at MIT, and plan on remounting…

— Anonymous

“deliberate practice requires that one identify certain sharply defined elements of performance that need to be improved, and then work intently on them.”

— Geoff Colvin

“But exceptional performance depends not only on the groundwork we lay through Deliberate Practice; it also requires the right working conditions. And in contemporary…

— Susan Cain