Coaching practices for Deliberate Practice Not Just Practice with Friends

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• I sit down to practice for an hour but I’m half on my phone the whole time
• 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
• I’m kind and openhearted with the people I already love and quietly closed off to the ones who get under my skin, and I’m realizing that warmth that only flows toward easy people isn’t really the practice
• I work on my character all in my own head, by my own standards, and it stays abstract and unproven
• I go all-in for a week or two and then the novelty wears off and I drift away from it

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. Build sharper mental representations
   Develop a detailed internal model of what excellent performance looks like.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
4. Always abide by the three principles
   Maintain your vow, don’t show off, and practise impartially with everyone — not just the people you like.
   Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training
5. 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
6. Sustain effortful practice over the long haul
   Make deliberate practice repeatable across years, not heroic for a week.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
7. Break the skill into components and drill the weak link
   Isolate the specific sub-skill that limits you and train it on its own.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
8. 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
9. 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
10. Practice deliberately, not just repeatedly
    Target weaknesses with full focus and feedback, not comfortable repetition.
    Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed

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