“As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.” – Vincent Van Gogh *** An excerpt from How To Become The Best at Anything, Chapter 8, Deliberate Practice and Learning “To become the best takes practice, lots and lots of practice. I have mentioned the 10,000-hour rule. It takes about 10,000 hours of practice to get really good at something and not just any type of practice, but deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is practicing to get better. The classic example is a man who has gone golfing almost every weekend for the past twenty years. He has a…

“Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.” — Warren Buffett *** Invest in developing your expertise. An excerpt from How To Become The Best at Anything, Introduction What the Book is About This book is for anyone who wants to get really good at something or even become one of the best at anything. It’s about how to develop expertise in any area or domain: the conditions that have to be met, the steps you have to take, the things you have to do, and what to expect on your path to becoming an expert. The path it takes to…

The Time is Now “Don’t wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.” – Chris Gardner Now is the time to increase your expertise level. *** An excerpt from How To Become The Best at Anything, Introduction What the Book is About This book is for anyone who wants to get really good at something or even become one of the best at anything. It’s about how to develop expertise in any area or domain: the conditions that have to be met, the steps you have to take, the things you have to do, and what to expect on your path to…

“It isn’t the learning that’s so hard. It’s the unlearning” – Charlie Munger If you learn something incorrectly and it becomes automated, it becomes a bad habit, and it is very hard to unlearn. *** An excerpt from How To Become The Best at Anything, Chapter 8 – Deliberate Practice and Learning Automaticity Deliberate practice results in the automation of a sequence of steps. It is automated so you don’t have to consciously think about it while you are doing it, you just do it. Some people call this “muscle memory.” I don’t like this term since muscles have no memory. Repeat after me, “muscles have no memory.” This automated sequence…