/lit/ - Literature

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I don't often read self-improvement books but I found pic related to be good. The book details how basically anything can be learned and mastered through deliberate practice and stresses that learning skills is not contingent on the time spent learning (like the popularized 20,000 hours rule of mastering a skill) but rather the quality of training. The author I believe is a psychologist and he explains how he was able to teach one of his students number memorization to demonstrate the effectiveness of deliberate practice. His student could eventually repeat hundreds of random numbers from memory. I admit I ultimately didn't retain much more than that from the book, just the basic theme that repeated quality practice = success. The book goes into better detail and dispels many prejudices people have towards learning and 'talent'