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Practice Like This: 35 Effective Ways to Get Better Faster
If you're alive, you're trying to get better at something. It could be your golf swing or guitar, parenting or painting, gaming, cooking, or any other skill.
The strategies in this book are top-shelf, pulled from neuroscience, research on excellence, and world-class masters in many fields, presented in an easy-to-understand style that is sometimes funny and always friendly.
Hundreds of helpful images and graphics.
6 SECTIONS, 42 HACKS:
1-Talent Is Practice in Disguise: Learn the 3 kinds of practice and how your brain is rewired when you learn new skills.
2-Motivation Is Like Bathing (A daily requirement): Your deepest, unspoken beliefs profoundly affect your motivation to improve, ya filthy animal.
3-You Are Unique (and so is everybody else): Learn why your reaction to difficulty matters. And why teachers and coaches matter just as much.
4-Time: The Most Valuable Thing You Spend: Forget the 10,000-hour rule. Practice time isn’t what you’ve been led to believe, nor is it otherwise.
5-Where You At? Where you practice and who you’re with will affect how fast and how much you improve. What can you do about it?
6-Do it To it! Some of the most effective practice strategies and techniques: used by pros, tested by science!
The strategies in this book are top-shelf, pulled from neuroscience, research on excellence, and world-class masters in many fields, presented in an easy-to-understand style that is sometimes funny and always friendly.
Hundreds of helpful images and graphics.
6 SECTIONS, 42 HACKS:
1-Talent Is Practice in Disguise: Learn the 3 kinds of practice and how your brain is rewired when you learn new skills.
2-Motivation Is Like Bathing (A daily requirement): Your deepest, unspoken beliefs profoundly affect your motivation to improve, ya filthy animal.
3-You Are Unique (and so is everybody else): Learn why your reaction to difficulty matters. And why teachers and coaches matter just as much.
4-Time: The Most Valuable Thing You Spend: Forget the 10,000-hour rule. Practice time isn’t what you’ve been led to believe, nor is it otherwise.
5-Where You At? Where you practice and who you’re with will affect how fast and how much you improve. What can you do about it?
6-Do it To it! Some of the most effective practice strategies and techniques: used by pros, tested by science!
- GenresMusic
146 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 25, 2015
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About the author
Jonathan Harnum
21 books27 followersI'm a author, musician, educator, and proud Alaskan. I play trumpet, guitar, and anything else that makes a cool noise.
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 5 reviews
July 3, 2018
Many excellent points and tips that can be applied to my mandolin practice but many other skills and activities that I am seeking to learn.
I recommend this book to any beginning musician, especially learning new instruments as an adult. And as an older, self motivated learner.
I recommend this book to any beginning musician, especially learning new instruments as an adult. And as an older, self motivated learner.
December 27, 2017
Useful tips for improving your learning
There are many things that I will apply to my learning of new things and many that I am not interested.
If I improve my learning abilities by 1% this book was useful, and I will be grateful.
There are many things that I will apply to my learning of new things and many that I am not interested.
If I improve my learning abilities by 1% this book was useful, and I will be grateful.
August 26, 2018
On the positive: very accessible. A toolbox of thoughts & practical techniques. Easy to read. Especially suited to developing a physical skill.
On the negative: not so useful to developing mental or emotional skills. Not a single cohesive approach.
On the negative: not so useful to developing mental or emotional skills. Not a single cohesive approach.
July 2, 2019
This is a very rapid summary of many other books and techiques, and serves as great motivator and reminder. Especially powerful if you've already been exposed to the ideas referenced.
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