The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance

The types of activities that will fill your time in the evening if you enforce a work shutdown, play the same attention-restoring role as walking in nature. If you keep interrupting your evening to check and respond to email or put aside a few hours after dinner to catch up on an approaching deadline, you're robbing your directed attention centers of the uninterrupted rest they need for restoration. To succeed with this strategy, you must first accept the commitment that once your work day shuts down, you cannot allow even the smallest incursion of professional concerns into your field of attention. In more detail, this ritual should ensure that every incomplete task, goal, or project has been reviewed, and that for each