You also need to use that time effectively, which Ericsson claims is best done via deliberate practice. As someone who half-heartedly practiced piano for two years to appease my mother, I can attest that just putting in hours does not promise results. Deliberate practice tries to maximize learning per effort invested.
There are probably many other examples of this, but for some reason the above just made the following lightbulb go off for me.
It’s usually a good idea to start with a concrete example before defining the thing. This is something that seems weirdly difficult to either do or to remember to do.
But instead of giving a concrete example, you gave a negative example. Half-heartedly practicing piano to appease one’s mother is not deliberate practice. For some reason negative examples never occur to me as something to use. Here I think it’s a great use-case for one, because, at least for me, coming up with positive examples of deliberate practice is a little bit awkward. At least relative to the negative example. I think it’s really intuitive that deliberate practice is kinda just the opposite of the sort of half-hearted practice you describe.
There are probably many other examples of this, but for some reason the above just made the following lightbulb go off for me.
It’s usually a good idea to start with a concrete example before defining the thing. This is something that seems weirdly difficult to either do or to remember to do.
But instead of giving a concrete example, you gave a negative example. Half-heartedly practicing piano to appease one’s mother is not deliberate practice. For some reason negative examples never occur to me as something to use. Here I think it’s a great use-case for one, because, at least for me, coming up with positive examples of deliberate practice is a little bit awkward. At least relative to the negative example. I think it’s really intuitive that deliberate practice is kinda just the opposite of the sort of half-hearted practice you describe.