A while ago someone on Twitter asked, “What is the equivalent of a musician practicing scales for what you do?”
I honestly can’t answer that and it’s been driving me crazy.
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Deliberate practice might be wrong analogy for knowledge work. Better might be chess players studying openings (so maybe also HBR case studies?) to expand pattern library, improve tacit knowledge. Say this as a trained cognitive scientist. h/t commoncog.com/blog/tacit-kno
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Agreed. I have been think thinking about this in the context of composition: attentive listening of music, learning to distinguish principles and patterns is just as much practice as writing. Their application is highly context-specific.
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This is fascinating. I’ve clicked through to the project on your website, Tobias, but I’m wondering if you’ve written anywhere about *how* you use it, and if you’ve reflected on how it’s helped you?
Thanks, Ced! Are you referring to the "listening as deliberate practice"? Or more the practical, Composition Exercise side of things? Some links to reflections:
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