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HOW TO GET MORE OUT OF PRACTICE
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How to Train Ugly
Three Tools for Better Practice
by Trevor Ragan
In school, sports, and the workplace our time is often split between performing and practicing:
The test, the game, and the presentation = performance
The things we do to prepare for the performance = practice
(obviously these aren’t the only two slices of the pie chart)
More times than not, the performance matters and we want it to go well. A great way to help that happen is to improve the way we practice.
Over the last 8 years I’ve had the honor of spending time with some brilliant researchers in the learning world: Anders Ericsson, Robert & Elizabeth Bjork, and Richard Schmidt. Their work points to a more effective way to practice, study, and prepare.
If we want to perform better, we need to practice better. Here are three tools to help us do that:
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