Practicing to be Perfect
Practicing to be Perfect
Better
1896
2016
Everyone in an organization keeps on getting promoted until they reach their level of incompetence.
Peter Principle
there are a handful of postmortem patterns that I keep seeing over and over again
Art +
Engineering
= Craft?
Father - Ludwig, a teacher
Nannerl - Sister, 4.5 yrs older
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Laszlo & Klara Polga
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"early and intensive specialization in a particular subject"
Many characteristics once believed to reflect innate talent are actually the result of intense practice extended for a minimum of 10 years.
Deliberate Practice
1. Develop skills others have figured out how to do (with a coach)
2. Practice outside one's comfort zone and constantly try things that are beyond her current abilities
2. "generally not enjoyable"
3. Well-defined, specific goals to improve target performance (with a set of small changes developed by a coach)
4. Deliberate; requires full attention and conscious actions
5. Feedback and modification of efforts in response to that feedback.
6. Produces and depends on effective mental representations
7. Focus on particular aspects of skills and work to improve them specifically
Mental Representations
Actual Game Positions
Experts: 20+ pieces
Novices: 4-5 pieces
Random
Experts: 6-7 pieces
Novices: 4-5 pieces
Avg: 7-8
After 200 training sessions, he had reached 82 digits
You need to break down big goals into smaller and smaller parts, and then you need to give them the part that they’re almost able to do, and with support can do.
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Designed specifically to improve performance
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Can be repeated a lot
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Feedback is continuously available
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Highly demanding mentally
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Not much fun
Deliberate Practice: Individual
Kata
http://codekata.com/
https://www.codewars.com/
☑️ Can be repeated a lot
☑️ Feedback is continuously available
Mentor(ing)
https://exercism.io/
☑️ Develop skills others have figured out how to do (with a coach)
☑️ Develop skills others have figured out how to do (with a coach)
☑️ Highly demanding mentally
Deliberate Practice: Teams
Mentor(ing)
Pair(ing)
☑️ Designed specifically to improve performance
☑️ Highly demanding mentally
☑️ Not much fun
Debt Reduction
Performance Improvements
☑️ Not much fun
☑️ Feedback is continuously available
Other
20% time
Spikes / Tracer Bullets
☑️ Designed specifically to improve performance
Deliberate Practice: Organizations
Deliberate Practice: Organizations
Training
Conferences
Education
Sabbatical
☑️ Designed specifically to improve performance
Community
Open Source (Sponsorship)
Shared Spaces
☑️ Designed specifically to improve performance
☑️ Feedback is continuously available
☑️ Can be repeated a lot
☑️ Feedback is continuously available
☑️ Highly demanding mentally
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Appendix
Deliberate Practice
You need to break down big goals into smaller and smaller parts, and then you need to give them the part that they’re almost able to do, and with support can do.
10,000 Hours
