Coaching practices for When I Run the Whole Thing End to End My Strong Parts Quietly Cover for My Weak One So the Actual Bottleneck Never Gets Touched I Keep Practicing the Full Performance and the One Move I'm Bad at Stays Exactly as Bad as it Was

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• When I run the whole thing end to end, my strong parts quietly cover for my weak one, so the actual bottleneck never gets touched
• I keep practicing the whole thing over and over and my overall level just won’t budge
• There’s one specific part of this that keeps tripping me up, but I always practice the whole thing start to finish
• I pour most of my effort into shoring up the things I’m bad at and it crawls
• I’ve been putting in the hours for ages and I’ve completely plateaued

Practices that may help

1. Use constraint-based drills to isolate one component
   Remove degrees of freedom so attention concentrates on a single weak sub-skill.
   Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability
2. Drill: attack your weakest sub-skill
   Isolate the rate-limiting component and drill it directly.
   Ultralearning: Aggressive, Self-Directed Learning
3. 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
4. Invest more development effort in your strengths than in your weaknesses
   Move from average to excellent in your strength areas rather than from poor to average in your weak ones.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
5. Practice deliberately, not just repeatedly
   Target weaknesses with full focus and feedback, not comfortable repetition.
   Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
6. Execute from procedural memory without step-by-step monitoring
   Trust the automatic version of your skill and resist the urge to supervise each movement.
   Choking Under Pressure, Made Practical
7. 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
8. Get immediate, specific feedback
   Shorten the gap between an attempt and knowing exactly what was wrong.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
9. Trust Self 2 — give the body an image, not instructions
   Set the target in vivid sensory terms and then let the body execute without conscious direction.
   The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1
10. Sub-skill isolation and sequencing
    Automate the components of a complex skill one at a time before combining them.
    Automaticity: When Skills Run Themselves

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