Butts In the Seats: Last Tuesday I wrote a post on some recent research about the value of deliberate practice. Over the weekend, I had an opportunity to read a little more on the recent study. Come to find out, this recent bit of research (Macnamara & Maitra) was an attempt to replicate the a study about deliberate practice conducted in Germany in 1993 (Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer). I mention this because some of the posts I made about deliberate practice in the past was based on Ericsson, et. al research.
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To be completely honest I clicked on this article because I had no idea what deliberate practice was and I am so glad to have read about it. This isn’t the first time that I heard about how time practicing a skill doesn’t equate mastery but this is the first time I’ve heard to do a harder thing to master the skill you are trying to do. I am amazed at how simple the idea of deliberate practice is yet how unconventional at least to me that this idea is. However, the very conventional idea of deliberate practice is the idea of separating work and leisure time. Breaking up assignments for me at least never goes well as I often take twice as much time to reacquaint myself to an assignment once I leave it. This makes total sense as study after study shows how humans suck/can’t even multitask. I wonder how the idea of practicing a hard task or music piece in the case of this article applies to practicing soft skills that arts managers so often use.
This is a nice follow up to last week's article on how practice does not always make perfect. I did not know that there were terms for the different types of practice. I was surprised that spreading the practice throughout the day was less beneficial and lead to less sleep. Something that I do when I’m studying is periodically take breaks by doing different things. I find that it helps me study longer. While I understand that practicing and studying are different, I wonder if the same principle would apply to both. The idea of complicating the task is an interesting way to work. Rather then working on the task as a whole, these violinists have figured out a way to work on their weak spots and the piece as a whole at the same time. This is something that is probably applicable to all fields. Reading both of these articles in a short period of time was interesting because it gives two perspectives to the same concept.
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