The funny thing is that Guardian got the central idea totally wrong: "the related idea of "deliberate practice" — or pushing your skills over long hours " No, d

The funny thing is that Guardian got the central idea totally wrong: "the related idea of "deliberate practice" — or pushing your skills over long hours " No, deliberate practice is not just long hours practice. Deliberate practice is deliberately finding your weakness and practice to fix it, to improve it then move on. Merely more practice will not improve one's skill much after a certain threshold. What matters is not how long or how many times did you do a certain thing but how often did you do it correctly and what you learned from the experience. Thus comes the second important part of effective training: a great teacher.