http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/11/12/this-is-how-you-get-better-deliberate-practice/ Individuals — Companies — Industries: How We Work Now. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:25:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/11/12/this-is-how-you-get-better-deliberate-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-14204 Book review: CrazyBusy, by Edward Hallowell. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:12:49 +0000 http://www.hooversbiz.com/?p=1523#comment-14204 [...] little story at my own expense. Last year, after writing about Carol Dweck’s book Mindset and the research of Anders Ericsson into “deliberate practice,” I thought I would revisit CrazyBusy, which I had reviewed on my personal blog in early [...] [...] little story at my own expense. Last year, after writing about Carol Dweck’s book Mindset and the research of Anders Ericsson into “deliberate practice,” I thought I would revisit CrazyBusy, which I had reviewed on my personal blog in early [...]

]]> http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/11/12/this-is-how-you-get-better-deliberate-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-14111 Put yourself in Spring Training. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:13:44 +0000 http://www.hooversbiz.com/?p=1523#comment-14111 [...] Those baseball players, young and old, go through practice regimes of increasing intensity over the weeks, preparing themselves to play full-bore by Opening Day. The best of them hone their games, winter and summer, through deliberate practice. [...] [...] Those baseball players, young and old, go through practice regimes of increasing intensity over the weeks, preparing themselves to play full-bore by Opening Day. The best of them hone their games, winter and summer, through deliberate practice. [...]

]]> http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/11/12/this-is-how-you-get-better-deliberate-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-12300 Devin @ CoolProducts Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:01:35 +0000 http://www.hooversbiz.com/?p=1523#comment-12300 Practice sucks. Being so, how do you get through it? For myself, I concentrate on the happiness I will gain from the rewards of my practice. Ex: practicing hours of problems for a test. Yes, this is a very mundane task and sometimes it drives me crazy. If I reach that point, I take a break, but get back to it. What drives me is knowing how happy I'll be from getting an A on a test. Practice sucks. Being so, how do you get through it? For myself, I concentrate on the happiness I will gain from the rewards of my practice. Ex: practicing hours of problems for a test. Yes, this is a very mundane task and sometimes it drives me crazy. If I reach that point, I take a break, but get back to it. What drives me is knowing how happy I’ll be from getting an A on a test.

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