Getting Good at What You Do

Ericson's work on deliberate practice makes a distinction between performing a skill and practising it. He found elite performers spent more time engaged in the careful act of improvement, rather than merely using the skill. But many educational programmes pretend that there are prerequisites that don't actually exist in practice. Learning to speak chinese, for instance, doesn't actually require learning to hand write,. Teaching it that way may throw up unnecessary barriers for someone who just wants to speakn three, deliberate practice and plateaus anders.