A crash intro to deliberate practice

A talk I gave on the 25th edition of Vienna.rb

Transcript

2. Can't do, but want/need to
3. Can do with effort
4. Mastered
7. Hard Practice
8. Long Practice
9. Better Practice
10. Deliberate Practice
11. "Deliberate Practice." Worst. Name. Ever. — Kathy Sierra
12. Design practice sessions
13. Clear & specific outcome
14. 95% improvement
15. Small & focussed sessions
16. “Shoot the basketball into the hoop while standing 3m from the hoop at a 45º angle”
17. “Analyze the cockpit instruments and determine the plane’s attitude within 5 seconds”
18. “Write & run a program (without errors) that accesses and displays data from this database.”
19. కӂب
20. Too Hard?
21. Break the skill down
22. Reduce performance criteria
23. Practice makes permanent Locks in whatever is practiced
24. Half-a-Skill beats Half-assed skill
25. Not all practice should be deliberate practice
26. "Work on a project, e.g. create a small game in a new programming language"
27. "Work through a step-by- step tutorial"
28. "Listen to a lecture or a presentation"
29. Figure out what do deliberate practice
30. Playing/ performing/ discovery still important
31. "Badass" by Kathy Sierra "Brain Rules" by John Medina "The Talent Code" by Daniel Coyle