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The development of deliberate practice by Anders Ericsson

The new book by Anders Ericsson entitled “Peak – Secrets from the new science of expertise” redefine more precisely than in the past the meaning of deliberate practice. As we know this approach is instrumental in encouraging, in many fields, the development of those skills needed to achieve exceptional performances.

Therefore deliberate practice:

  • “develops skills that other people have already figure out to do and for which effective techniques have been established”
  • “takes place outside one’s comfort zone and requires a student to constantly try things that are just beyond his or her current abilities”
  • “involves well-defined, specific goals”
  • “is deliberate, that is, it requires a person’s full attention and conscious action”
  • “involves feedback and modification of efforts in response to that feedback”
  • “produces and depends mental representations. Improving performance goes hand in hand with improving mental representations”
  • “involves building or modifying previously acquired skills, focusing on particular aspects of those skills and working to improve them specifically”