deliberate practice

Open Culture has a post with lots of links to ideas on the best ways to practice something new. Hint: just repeating bad habits doesn’t do the trick.

Psychologist Anders Ericsson, the single figure most closely associated with deliberate practice, draws a distinction with what he calls naive practice: “Naive practice is people who just play games,” and in so doing “just accumulate more experience.” But in deliberate practice, “you actually pinpoint something you want to change. And once you have that specific goal of changing it, you will now engage in a practice activity that has a purpose of changing that.”

So it turns out that experience and wisdom aren’t the same thing after all. I would say you can’t have wisdom without experience, but you can have experience without wisdom.

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