Coaching practices for Deliberate Practice Not Just Practice at Work

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• I sit down to practice for an hour but I’m half on my phone the whole time
• My practice lives in a little window and the rest of the day
• When I practice I’m just kind of doing it again and hoping it’s better, because I don’t actually have a clear picture in my head of what great is supposed to look like
• My practice has gotten comfortable
• I work on my character all in my own head, by my own standards, and it stays abstract and unproven

Practices that may help

1. Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
   Deliberate practice, studied by Anders Ericsson, is focused, effortful practice aimed just beyond your current ability, with immediate feedback and constant correction. It is what separates people who keep improving from people who simply log hours — and it is why the popular "10,000 hours" rule is an oversimplification of his work.
2. Practice with full, undivided focus
   Short blocks of complete concentration beat long blocks of distracted repetition.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
3. Treat every act as an offering — however mundane
   The karma yoga practitioner does not divide life into sacred and secular — every act done with full attention is practice.
   Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Selfless Action
4. Build sharper mental representations
   Develop a detailed internal model of what excellent performance looks like.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
5. Train at the edge of your ability
   Work on tasks just beyond what you can reliably do, not what you already do well.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
6. Embed your virtues in a practice community
   The virtues needed for excellence in any serious practice (craft, sport, relationship) are real virtues — find the practice that calls them out.
   Virtue Ethics, Made Practical
7. Sustain effortful practice over the long haul
   Make deliberate practice repeatable across years, not heroic for a week.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
8. Situated practice in authentic contexts
   Practice the skill inside the real-world context where it will eventually be used.
   Cognitive Apprenticeship: Learning by Making Thinking Visible
9. Everyday integration — using commute and errand walks as practice
   Transform a portion of routine walking into meditation by choosing one formal practice element to maintain for the duration.
   Walking Meditation, Made Practical
10. Stop judging learning by today’s performance
    How well you do during practice is a bad predictor of how much you will keep.
    Desirable Difficulties: When Harder Means Better Learning

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