The Science of High Performance by Som Bathla

Author:Som Bathla
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Self discipline, success books, self confidence, peak performance, anxiety and depression, self discipline for success, neuroplasticity
Publisher: Som Bathla
Published: 2018-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6: The Science of Expertise – How Highly Successful Attain Mastery

“Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.”

~ Robert Greene

Everyone has heard the age old saying:

“Practice makes a man perfect.”

But sadly, this is not entirely true.

You might think that the more experience you have doing something, the better you get. But that’s not true. You don’t become better driver by driving more or for a longer period. You don’t become a better doctor by just being a doctor for several years. You don’t become a better accountant or a lawyer just by being that. It is like someone claiming twenty years of experience in a field, but in reality it could be one year of experience just repeated over twenty years without learning anything new in that time.

Therefore, practicing the same things over and over without focus on improving your craft doesn’t make you any better — forget becoming perfect. Hence, the improved version of this quote should be:

“Perfect practice makes a man perfect”.

You get better not merely by practicing something, but by practicing it the right way. This section is about teaching what should be the right way to practice. Anders Ericsson, is a psychologist and researcher at Florida State University, he was the original researcher on the famous 10,000-hour rule, which was promoted Malcolm Gladwell in his famous book Outliers, as the necessary time period needed to become an expert in any filed.

Ericsson explains that there are three types of practices, which people pursue to gain any skill in any field, as stated below:

Naive Practice

Purposeful Practice

Deliberate Practice.

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