刻意练习 PEAK(一)

八月英文原版书阅读计划  图/Eric

Part 1:Words and Sentences

Sound

Steve was already beginning to sound discouraged.

Adjective: solid and strong; in good health

E.g: A sound mind in a sound body.

Noun: a particular auditory impression; the sensation perceived by the sense of hearing

Verb: to cause to sound; to make a sound

E.g：It sounds good.

The bugle sounds to battle.

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Deploy

But it takes much longer to deploy.

Verb: to organize and send out people or things to be used for a particular purpose; 

to open up and spread out the parts of something 

E.g: The troops were deployed for battle.

The parachute failed to deploy.

Part 2:My Thoughts

作者通过探究“多位数字的临时记忆上限值”，发现了练习对进步的重要性，之后从体育、音乐等方面举例论证了通过不断的训练可以提高表现和成绩。之后，通过练习打网球这件事向我们指出：并不是所有的练习都是“刻意练习”。刻意练习是针对特别的一个方面，帮助你越过瓶颈期，打破天花板的一个努力过程。

我最近也在准备托福考试，报名了九月份考试。之前也考过几次，其中听力成绩总是不理想：20分上下徘徊。网上有传言：ETS会有压分的情况出现，对自己的信心也是有一定的打击。不过，通过自己在5、6月份集中对听力进行练习，拿TPO、真题反复琢磨。令人可喜的是，在7月8日的考试中，我拿到了26分的分数。确实，通过不断的练习，越过一个个的平原期，现在对自己的下次考试也更加有自信，特别是听力。

人们常说“Practice makes perfect",而我相信 Practice with a right way leads to success.

Part 3:Summary

Given his frustrating, experience over the first few sessions, he was pretty sure that he wasn’t going to get any better.

You spend the time repeating them to yourself over and over again—and thus transfer them into your long-term memory.

My main area of interest was the mental processes that take place when someone is learning something or developing a skill.

He had found a way to push through that ceiling.

We live in a world full of people with extraordinary abilities— abilities that from the vantage point of almost any other time in human history would have been deemed impossible.

An improvement that was not always obvious from year to year but that is dramatic when viewed over the course of several decades.

Thus, all truly effective practice techniques work in essentially the same way.

The dramatic improvements we have seen in those few fields over the past hundred years are achievable in pretty much every field if we apply the lessons that can be learned from studying the principles of effective practice.

The goal is to reach a point at which everything becomes automatic and an acceptable performance is possible with relatively little thought.

Once a person reaches that level of “acceptable” performance and automaticity, the additional years of “practice” don’t lead to improvement.