[...] on getting better at your craft. Achieving flow is a good thing, but something equally important is deliberate practice, i.e. intensive work aimed at stretching yourself at your [...]

[...] http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/01/06/the-grandmaster-in-the-corner-office-what-the-study-of-chess-e… [...]

[...] absorb what we need by the osmotic action of reading. Reading is important, but it isn’t the deliberate practice that leads to expertise. I’ve been working to push through that plateau for myself, and [...]

[...] The difference was in how they spent this time. The elite players were spending almost three times more hours than the average players on deliberate practice — the uncomfortable, methodical work of stretching your ability. [...]

[...] revelations about something called deliberate practice point up a different truth. Talent starts out as a spark, a glimmer, that is protected, coached and [...]

[...] Use deliberate practice to gain mastery [...]

[...] can’t imagine a better (outside-of-the-classroom) way to do deliberate practice on a skill so essential to teaching physics (that is, figuring out what students are thinking so [...]

[...] Newport has blogged repeatedly and brilliantly on the idea of deliberate practice. Daniel Willingham, in “Why [...]

[...] is the best way to learn, because working on your own projects forces you to engage in deliberate practice (Cal Newport’s key to living a remarkable life). Not only do you practice your skills, but [...]

[...] comes down to the daily choices we make.  Whoever chooses to put in more quality hours of deliberate practice prior to their performances is gonna have the edge.  Because with hours of quality practice comes [...]