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Some tips for improving your skills

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Shabnam Sakia:
Informative post for improving our basic skills. Thanks for sharing.

najnin:
Thanks a lot Shakia to read these tips. Hopefully these tips help us to change our inner skills.

najnin:
Tip 7 # Choose Spartan over Luxurious

We love comfort. We love state-of-the-art practice facilities, oak-paneled corner offices, spotless locker rooms, and fluffy towels. Which is a shame, because luxury is a motivational narcotic: It signals our unconscious minds to give less effort. It whispers, Relax, you've made it.

The talent hotbeds are not luxurious. In fact, they are so much the opposite that they are sometimes called chicken-wire Harvards. Top music camps- especially ones that can afford better-consist mainly of rundown cabins. The North Baltimore Aquatic Club, which produced Michael Phelps and four other Olympic medalists, could pass for an underfunded YMCA. The world's highest-performing schools- those in Finland and South Korea, which perennially score at the top of the Program for International Student Assessment rankings- feature austere classrooms that look as if they haven't changed since the 1950s.

The point of this tip is not moral; it's neural. Simple, humble spaces help focus attention on the deep-practice task at hand: reaching and repeating and struggling. When given the choice between luxurious and spartan, choose spartan. Your unconscious mind will thank you.

najnin:
Tip 8 Make Positive Reaches

There's a moment just before every rep when you are faced wit ha choice: You can either focus your attention on the target (what you want to do) or you can focus on the possible mistake (what you want to avoid). This tip is simple: Always focus on the positive move, not the negative one. Psychologists call this "positive framing", and provide plentiful theories of how framing affects our subconscious mind. The point is, it always works better to reach for what you want to accomplish, not away from what you want to avoid.

najnin:
Ti 9: Use the sandwich technique:

Deep practice is about finding and fixing mistakes, so the question naturally pop up: What's the best way to make sure you don't repeat mistakes? One way is to employ the sandwich technique. It goes like this:

1. Make the correct move
2. Make the incorrect move.
3. Make the correct move again.

The goal is to reinforce the correct move and to put a spotlight on the mistake, preventing it from slipping past undetected and becoming wired into your circuitry.


The little book of talent - Daniel Coyle

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