This actually sounds quite different from “deliberate practice”. This says that to get better at playing piano, you should play the piano. Deliberate practice says that just playing the piano isn’t enough and maybe even mostly a waste of time (for this specific goal). It feels to me that deliberate practice would win out, so am I misunderstanding this? Is it just a framework for the concept and the implementation would look basically like deliberate practice?
I think the Law of Equal but Opposite Advice is extremely relevant here, in that there are two common failure modes for practicing.
The first of these is “not practicing what you actually do”, and turbocharging helps with that.
The second of these is “practicing what you actually do, but inefficiently”, and deliberate practice helps with that.
Of course, trying too hard to avoid the first failure mode yields the second (e.g. playing a whole piano piece through repeatedly), and trying too hard to avoid the second failure mode yields the first (e.g. memorising Anki flashcards for a language, but being unable to speak it since you didn’t practice talking).
This actually sounds quite different from “deliberate practice”. This says that to get better at playing piano, you should play the piano. Deliberate practice says that just playing the piano isn’t enough and maybe even mostly a waste of time (for this specific goal). It feels to me that deliberate practice would win out, so am I misunderstanding this? Is it just a framework for the concept and the implementation would look basically like deliberate practice?
I think the Law of Equal but Opposite Advice is extremely relevant here, in that there are two common failure modes for practicing.
The first of these is “not practicing what you actually do”, and turbocharging helps with that.
The second of these is “practicing what you actually do, but inefficiently”, and deliberate practice helps with that.
Of course, trying too hard to avoid the first failure mode yields the second (e.g. playing a whole piano piece through repeatedly), and trying too hard to avoid the second failure mode yields the first (e.g. memorising Anki flashcards for a language, but being unable to speak it since you didn’t practice talking).