Practice alone won't make you perfect. Professional musicians, athletes, and chess players use deliberate, systematic practice instead. The difference matters most in knowledge work, where informal habits keep most people stuck.
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You should look to professional musicians, professional athletes, professional chess players, people who have to get good in a world that has a well defined competence hierarchy, where you have a chess ranking and you can't run away from it. You have a batting average, you can't get away from it. Watch how they train, because in their world, there's a lot of effort that has gone into how do you systematically improve and what it is that they deliberately practice. And there's really no shortcut to deliberate practice, to gaining mastery in almost any field, but in knowledge work in particular. So in this sort of whole array of sort of various creative and other types of professions, we don't think that way. And people don't actually do a lot of this sort of systematic practice. And so that's why in so Good They Can't Ignore youe I go and I hang out with a professional guitar player.