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I like how he said, we just come up with some

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is deliberate practice and we've both read an awful lot around deliberate practice. I'm not sure we just come up with ideas. It's like a bit of a mix to everybody.

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So today's topic is deliberate practice. And what that means is practice that focuses on

tasks beyond your current level of competence and comfort. And I had a real aha moment when I was

reading about deliberate practice, practicing, learning by doing,

in terms of just understanding the difference between the three. And I think you can relate

it usually quite quickly to something in your life where you think, oh, that's why I'm not

getting any better at that thing, because there is a really clear difference between

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