Chapter Summary: The Three Rules of Deep Practice
If we break the concept of deep practice into its basic parts, there are three basic sections. First, break down what you're practicing and learn all of the separate chunks. Once you learn the chunks, connect them and repeat the work. Third, you have to learn how to recognize the feeling of being in deep practice. This will enable a person to enter a mental state of deep practice quickly and effectively, maximizing the effect of one's practice time. The most difficult part of this is the level of uncomfortability that feeling is. To find the sweet spot and enter that mental state is to reach beyond your current ability. That means you will mess up, you will not sound so great (particularly to yourself), and it is very uncomfortable. However, that will yield the results you want.
Key Points
Chunk what you're practicing.
Repetition will teach you what mistakes you're still making if you are still looking for them.
When you know how that "feels" it will be easier to get there.
Key Terms
Chunking
Making Applications
I should practice in chunks. Identify tricky runs or uncomfortable leaps, and fire those circuits until that "chunk" is mastered.
Learn to recognize the feeling of deep practice, and actively search for that as soon as I start practicing.
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