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Is there an analog to physical conditioning / endurance (from elite sports) for boundary-pushing creative knowledge work?

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There’s a cluster of notes by

@andy_matuschak

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Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much more rigorously than knowledge...

Joel Chan

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Oooo deliberate practice! Summoning

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Yes, my notes on this are awfully anemic; I'm sure

@ejames_c

can give you a much better answer.

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Hmm it’s ironic but I’m currently digging into Cognitive Flexibility Theory, and the authors there use ‘deliberate practice’ a lot more loosely than I expected. They mean it like “any kind of practice that you do deliberately”, and not Ericsson’s original definition.

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I say ironic because I’ve always been a stickler for definitions when it comes to DP (after all, Ericsson does pin down the definition near the end of his career), but here it seems a bunch of highly respected researchers don’t, and don’t care.

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Example (this is taken from the CFT chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Expertise):

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It feels to me like DP is simply practicing while giving a whole shit. You can half ass your way through practice and get nothing out of it. Hence the difficulties with education and learning and development programs. Mandated learning is like court appointed therapy. Play ftw

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I was going to find it, but am on hols. Sorry I recently read about how how the negative emotions from failure prime the perception systems to attend more fully next time. It was a neurology / cogsci paper. If you aren’t feeling the agony of defeat you prob aren’t DP