The 10,000-hour rule is not entirely accurate. A better explanation is that there are many skills or fields in which you become an expert if you have 10,000 hours or so of effective practice or training. The emphasis here is on effective practice, i.e. deliberate practice. There is no such thing as a genius, a great master, an expert who has had a great deal of effective practice.
The main thing that separates the exceptional from the rest of us is that they have, over years of practice, altered neural circuits in their brains to create highly specialized mental representations.
The relationship between skills and mental representations is a virtuous circle: the more skilled you are, the better you create mental representations; And the better the mental representation, the more effectively you can practice to hone your skills.
Mental representation
A mental representation is a mental structure, concrete or abstract, that corresponds to an object, an idea, some information, or anything else that our brain is thinking about.
“Deliberate practice” definition
A purposeful, targeted practice of creating “mental representations” to “foresee” things and act on them subconsciously.
“Deliberately practice” points
1. Goals should be clearly and reasonably targeted
2. Make specific plans to achieve your goals
3. Focus on the plan
4. Timely feedback and correction
5. Use different methods to break through bottlenecks
6. Stay motivated
When we are ready to learn a new skill, we can either study by ourselves or find a training class to learn from the teacher. After a period of learning, we have mastered this skill very well. For example, we can learn guitar and play according to the score skillfully. Then learn new songs of moderate difficulty on your own or keep playing the ones you already know.
After a year or even several years, I find that I am still at my previous level and have not made continuous progress as the progress rate at the beginning of learning. This is because I have not continued to practice with higher difficulty, but have been proficient in the skills I have learned. Even because I have not guaranteed the basic amount of practice, my level will decline. So if you want to improve at a skill, keep practicing deliberately.
1. Goals should be clearly and reasonably targeted
Be specific: Set a specific, measurable goal, like running 10 kilometers or practicing playing a tune 100 times.
Reasonable: Goals that are just out of your comfort zone, but not so far out of your comfort zone that they are prohibitively difficult can be achieved with a little extra effort.
Target: A target is specific to a skill or aspect of the skill, such as distance run or speed run.
Take running as an example: This time, run 10 kilometers at 5 minutes. Next time, aim to run 11 kilometers at 5 minutes, or 10 kilometers at 4.50
2. Make specific plans to achieve your goals
When you have a goal, you need to make specific plans and train to achieve it. For example, if the speed exceeds 4.50 in 5 minutes, it is necessary to practice for running speed, such as interval running and uphill running
3. Focus on the plan
Deliberate practice emphasizes the concentration of practice. When we do one thing with a very focused attitude and do one thing with one heart and mind, efficiency and harvest are definitely different. Deliberate practice emphasizes the concentration of the practice process.
4. Timely feedback and correction
According to the results of the exercise, you need to have timely feedback, and adjust the plan (increase the intensity or adjust the direction) according to the feedback, this feedback can be from the teacher, friends, colleagues, classmates, in short, anyone who can give you feedback.
5. Use different methods to break through bottlenecks
In the process of progress and improvement, there will always be bottlenecks. For example, if you want to improve your running speed, interval training is very effective at the beginning, but after improving to a certain extent, no matter how much training you do, you cannot continue to improve. At this time, another training method may have different effects.
6. Stay motivated
Deliberate practice isn’t always fun, and staying motivated is probably the biggest problem anyone who engages in deliberate practice or deliberate practice ends up facing.
You want to stay motivated by either strengthening the reasons to keep going or weakening the reasons to stop.
Reasons to strengthen the progress: carefully set goals to inspire themselves, or find groups to communicate and encourage each other, or find ways to let others see their practice, to gain others’ encouragement and recognition.
Weaken the route to stop: I’m good enough to deal with the problem at hand, I’m good enough, I’ve worked hard enough. When thoughts like these come to mind, look up and see those who are better than you, who are working harder than you. When games or novels tempt you, do they have any practical meaning beyond the momentary pleasure they spend giving you (and the constant pain that comes with playing games)?
conclusion
Deliberately practiced tasks should be of moderate difficulty, receive feedback, and be repeated enough times that learners can correct their mistakes.
The most common way to do this is to try to replicate the achievements of great people and then stop and think about why you failed. In this way, we can create effective mental representations and constantly optimize mental representations.
No genius, perhaps some innate intelligence, spatial thinking, logical thinking and imagination will be better, but these will only in the early stages of the learning a particular skill, bring them some advantage, practice is decided to someone in a particular field or industry in the final achievement of the single most important factor, if the genes play a role in them, so, Their role will wear off.
Study found that brilliant mathematician, musicians, chess master, their achievements and intelligence, spatial thinking and so on there is no positive relationship, sometimes even reverse relationship, because there is no advantage on nature, let them at the beginning when learning a skill is higher than the intelligence, spatial thinking good slower, It forces them to train and practice harder, and it becomes a habit, and more practice makes them an expert, a master.
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