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Episode 26: Grit

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Deliberate Practice Is the Most Expensive

Researchers found that deliberate practice was more predictive of how far you would get in a spelling bee than the other two kinds of practice. They also found grit was the best predictor of how much deliberate practice you'd actually get done. Shankar: I had a moment of great sadness because it felt not just that we were finding that deliberate practice produced these wonderful results, butAlso what he said about being able to do this kind of work as an enjoyable activity.

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