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1. Introduction: Whether it's worth
free throw shooting, practicing speech, practicing the piano at
one point or another. You're going to
have to practice. Anyone gets better at a skill, but not any kind of practice. My friend, instead,
we're going to be focusing on deliberate practice. This is the mentality
of great people. In this beginner's class
on deliberate practice, you will learn what is it. We're going to understand
what a feedback system is. You're going to learn more about learning along with a
final project at the end. My name is Armand jewelry,
the founder of Vermont. He talks a media
company which helps engineers and entrepreneurs improve their
communication skills. I'm also the author of the
book level of mentality, a guy to re-engineer your
mindset for confidence. And his book discusses
deliberate practice in detail. But I'm not going to break
it down all in details. Instead, we're going to have a dummies guide to understanding the topic so you can learn
your skill set of choice. I look forward to
seeing you inside.
2. What is Deliberate Practice?: Deliberate practice is to
rewire your nervous system. Think about it like that. Anytime that we're practicing, what we're trying to do is we're trying to get the thoughts from our mind and we're trying
to execute it in our body. When's the last time
you practiced any deck? Probably driving. When you are practicing driving, I'm sure you had someone
in the passenger seat who is giving you instructions
on how to go about driving. So you don't kill both of
you and the assistant. And you're getting
the knowledge, you're getting an
understanding in your mind. The only issue was that your body wasn't
complying at the time. The reason that you
are practicing was because you needed
your body to comply. That is why we practice. That is what deliberate
practicing is all about. It's about rewiring
your nervous system.
3. Regular vs Deliberate: Now you may be thinking, Okay, I practice all the time. Why should I even
watch this class? Here's why most people
are doing just that. They're practicing. They're doing the regular
kind of practicing. But it is not deliberate. What's the difference? The difference is
focused levels. With regular practice, lot
of people are in la-la land. I like to use the
example of free throws. I imagine that
there's two people. One person is practicing
their free throws for roughly 3 h. Impressive, right? But within those 3 h, they're over here
checking their texts or calling their friends,
lollygagging, daydreaming. Sure, they have the 3 h. But is it as optimal as the other
person whose only spending, let's say 30 min on a
free throw shooting. But when they're doing those
30 min, they're focused. They're not focusing
on anything else. But the free throws. Which party is more effective? It's this person because
their mind has clarity. Their mind knows
the task at hand. And it doesn't matter
that it's less time than the other person because the other person has
poor quality time. The thing is, not every
situation that we're involved in where we're
practicing is like a thriving. Because if you mess up driving, then you can actually die. The urgency is higher. This is why most people, when they're learning how to
drive for the first time, they're very similar
to the mentality of this fellow within the 30
min of free throw shooting. Or they're solely focused. But a lot of activities, let's say playing the piano, the stakes aren't that high. You're not in the risk of dying if you don't
practice properly. So that's when there's this
lackadaisical approach, sort of like this fellow, the one that's practicing
free throws for 3 h. Our goal with deliberate practice
is to increase the urgency when
we are practicing. So our mind is not in Lala Land, but it's in the present moment.
4. Study Effectively: To get started with
deliberate practice, you need to know the topic. But we want to make sure that there's a
little caveat to this. You don't want to know too much when you're
initially beginning, because chances are
you're going to fall within analysis paralysis. This is the person who
just wants to keep knowing more and more and more. And they're like, trust me, I learned to play
the piano soon, but I just got to learn
a little bit more. This person is not learning properly with the deliberate
practice mindset. So to curve any form
of analysis paralysis, learn just enough to begin. By following this mindset. They're going to get a somewhat gist of whatever
topic you're trying to learn. You're going to know some basic understanding of the history. What is the skill set? Who are some great players
within the skill set? Some of the basic mechanics, you're consuming
enough content to keep hearing certain phrases
being repeated. These phrases must
be very important. These phases, phrases must be the fundamentals
of the topic. Okay, now I'm ready to begin. And simply setting this
intention allows you to go past any form of overthinking while you're entering
this skill set. Not completely as a blank slate, but you know something. And don't worry, as you
are starting to practice, you're going to
gather more data. And as you gather more data, you'll know hyper targeted
questions to ask. So then you can go back into your studying mode.
Isn't that cool? When you begin practicing? You can still keep on studying. So no need to have
analysis paralysis, just consume enough
in order to begin.
5. Execute: Let's say the skill set that
you chose was blogging. You did a lot of research from a famous authors on their perspective in
regards to writing. You read some books yourself to spot a good writing
versus bad writing. And now you're at that point where you want to
practice your writing. You know what you
need to do right now. You need to execute. You need to write. But notice something
with writing isn't one of those tasks that
are hi In urgency? Or does it feel
like you'll die at any moment while you're writing? Not really. So chances are you may be one of those
people that spending 3 h writing while you're checking the different
tabs on the internet, you're checking your
phone, your lollygagging. This isn't deliberate practice. So in order to build urgency, what we want to do is we
want to unleash the timer. The timer is highly
powerful because whenever we're executing some form
of numbers to a task, suddenly it brings up
the level of importance. So in the beginning stages, let's say you're trying
to practice blogging. Well, instead of using a
timer, use a stopwatch. A stopwatch counts up. A timer counts down. You want to use a
stopwatch because you're still just getting a feel
for what blogging is like. You don't necessarily know
what it takes to even blog. For your first couple of
entries gathered data. See how long it takes you to research the right topic, right? The rough draft, edit, the rough draft,
proofread and such. And let's say it takes
you 1.5 h to 1 h and 45 min down the line when you are practicing
blogging some more, you could set a timer
for 1 h and 35 min. And you just see it. It's counting down. You put it out of your vicinity. Then you just begin executing. You began writing. And there's this
level of urgency. So bottom line, you want to put some numbers into the game
whenever you are executing. Otherwise, it's too easy to just lowly gag and waste time. The mind likes the
numbers because it focuses in on the moment and
it clarifies the position. In the initial stages as
you are seeking data. I use a stopwatch. Once you have a rough
idea of how long this activity
takes, use a timer.
6. Gather Data and Refine: So at this stage, you are
gathering a lot of data. Throughout your Deliberate
Practice moments, you are present
and in the moment. And as the data is building, you want to refine it. Now. Refining it is
something that is dependent upon the skill set that
you are looking to master. Something like
shooting free throws. It's very objective in nature. Either the ball went
n or it did not. So whenever you're refining, you can optimize a little bit easier than something
more creative in nature. Such as, was this a
good blog or not? This is one of those situations where when you are refining, if you do have a mentor, your mentor can guide you. But if you don't have a mentor, you want to ask questions. Am I being as
effective as I can? And getting my point home in a concise manner is my writing showing some
form of personality? Does my writing have
content within it? I mean, are my audience members at least
learning something. But two were fine, is very
dependent upon the skill set. But what we do want to
do is we do want to do some form of refining with
the blogging example. If you're shorting
to build readers, your readers may be
able to guide you. Your mentor may be
able to guide you, or you may be able to guide you. But what the deliberate
practice mindset, we're always looking
for some way to improve more
and more and more. And if you have
consistently been studying, as you have been practicing, you'll be presented random
ideas which were, you'll see. You should look out for
this, this, and this, and you should avoid
these certain stakes. So always have that at tweaking mindset where
you're trying to improve at least a minimum of 1% each time that you're going through,
you're refining process.
7. Feedback Systems: With deliberate
practice, There's a thing called feedback systems. Don't worry. It's not anything
that's too complicated. Instead, it's something that
just allows you to know whether or not you're
in the right track. One form of feedback
system is a coach. Another form of a
feedback system is information technology. Let's do the coach. A lot of famous players,
athletes and such. They have a coach that is
monitoring their progress. The coach will let
them know, Hey, you're doing this correctly, or Hey, you're not
doing this correctly. This is a form of
deliberate practice. And with deliberate practice, you need some type
of feedback system. But let's say you're
at that level where you can afford a coach. You're like, I'm just
getting started. I don't have that much money. Well, in this situation, you have another thing called
Information Technology, which are cameras, which
are audio equipment. Ways for you to see yourself, for you to objectify yourself. And once you objectify yourself, you can analyze yourself. So let's say you don't have a free throw shooting
coach then began recording your free throws and see these tapes back later. When you are watching
yourself back later, you'll be able to have a
different perspective. Now, you have the perspective of an observer rather than
someone who is participating. Hey, did you see that? Look, whenever you miss your free throws
is because you're not bending your knees properly. You get a lot of pressure for the actual shot from
your knees bending. This is something
that you're capable of watching on the tape. So you need some form of a feedback system with
deliberate practice. It could be a coach, it could be information
technology, or it could be both.
8. Interleaving Learning: The more that you began
to dominate your field, the more that you're
going to strangely get inspiration from all around you. There was this very
famous pop singer who was starting to grow
our massive fanbase. They went from being
a local sensation to becoming a global sensation. And soon this pop singer who was seen as the gold standard
in terms of pop. So most people expected
that this pop singer would learn strictly
from other pop singers. That's how they should
have practiced. But not quite. This pop singer onetime
went to Africa. And the part of Africa
that they went, a lot of the locals
there were playing music with a lot of raw equipment. They didn't have actual froms. Instead, they were getting rocks and just
hitting it like this. Whenever there was a thunder, a lot of the tribes within this African village
would dance. Soon, this pop singer
was starting to get inspired by this new
area that he went to. More specifically, who's
getting inspired by nature. So the more that
you're practicing, eventually what's going to
happen is that you're not only gaining inspiration from
the soul skill set, instead, different fields start to merge with one another. This is known as
interleaving learning. And the more that you're capable of cross combining fields, you start to learn at a rapid rate and you
become more solidified in the knowledge that you have already accumulated over time, just leave a door open
for this possibility of different topics suddenly
intertwining with your skill.
9. Final Project: For the final project, you are going to do some deliberate practice on
your skill set of choice. Pick a skill, learn
about the skill, but don't fall victim
to analysis paralysis. Just learn enough
to begin the skill. Once you begin practicing. Short a stopwatch to gather how long it takes you to
finish a certain trial. Then once you have enough data, I want you to set the
timer to execute a trial. And once you are complete, analyze your feedback system. Did you have a coach who
is monitoring you as you were going through
your skill set? Did you have a writing coach
going through your writing? Or did you create the
content and you're going back refining the
content on your own. Once you are done, I
want you to create a report of your deliberate
practice journey. How was it like? Does the
timer help you at all? Did it help to have
a feedback system? Did you have a coach?
Did you review back your own content?
How was it like? I get as detailed as
you possibly can, because the more that you invite deliberate practice
into your life, the quicker that
you're going to learn, the skill set, and
the more that you are going to rewire your
nervous system. So what you're picturing in your mind will translate
into your body. And your body will
translate into actions that will
influence reality. If you enjoyed this
beginner's class on deliberate practice, be sure to check out
or money talks.com, which has plenty more
topics like this, on practicing much
more effectively, on focusing better, on having a clear thinking mind when you are doing different activities. And much more, or
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Arman Chowdhury, Confidence thru Communication
