Day 13 | Daily Dose of learning

This project is inspired by the ‘100-day project’, a challenge consisting of committing to doing an activity everyday for 100 days.

I have decided to write about one thing I learn everyday for the next 30 days. This can be a skill, a deep concept to elaborate on, or a mere life lesson that made me become aware of something I consider relevant.

The decision is based on the belief that “we are what we repeatedly do”, as Valentin Perez put it.

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Deliberate Practice

Learning a skill, mastering an activity, becoming great at some discipline, all require deep, purposeful, consistent practice over the long run.

That’s deliberate practice. Working a lot on developing specific skills. Which is different from merely working a lot (many hours). Deliberate practice has purpose and intentionality.

As professor Hayes, when studying this very subject, discovered that great artists did not produce any relevant piece until having made art and worked hard for 10 years, this ‘rule’ applies to every discipline one wants to master.

He defined this time period of hard work and little recognition the ‘ten years of silence’.

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