Deliberate Practice Quotes

• The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.

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  K. Anders Ericsson

  Practice   Differences   Long  

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• Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

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  Malcolm Gladwell

  Practice   Determined   Environment  

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• Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

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  K. Anders Ericsson

  Inspirational   Practice   Effort  

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

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  Martin Seligman

  Children   Character   Practice  

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Flourish”, p.128, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.

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  David Brooks

  Practice   Keys   Crafts  

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• Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice meditation to still the mind and cause it to become aware of its true relationship to the Self which supports it. Do not imagine that it is you who are doing the work. Think that is the underlying current which is doing it. Identify yourself with the current.

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  Ramana Maharshi

  Real   Inspiration   Thinking  

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• Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy. The uplifting news, though, is that many talented people don't have such natural wiring - but they forge a talent through thousands of hours of what's known as deliberate practice or deliberate performance.

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  Kevin Maney

  Uplifting   Practice   People  

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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