8.16 Day 12 Peak: C6 Principles of Deliberate Practice in Everyday Life

 PART 1: Thoughts

“each one done correctly, time and again, until excellence in every detail becomes a firmly ingrained habit.” 不要忽视小细节，要习惯性的把控细节，完善它，例如口语练习。

To effectively practice a skill without a teacher, it helps to keep in mind three Fs: Focus. Feedback. Fix it.  自学的3个重要因素。

We can only form effective mental representations when we try to reproduce what the expert performer can do, fail, figure out why we failed, try again, and repeat over and over again.复制、失败、思考、再尝试，创建有效的心理表征。

刻意练习适用于每个行业每个人，只要我们想要并能坚持去做，把它用起来。若能找到一位能指导帮助我们建立高效的心理表征的老师固然好，然而在我生活的环境和圈子却非常难，所以学会自学这点变得尤其的重要。其实现在网络上有很多的资源供我们自学，但以前自己算是属于收集派，收集了许多资源，感觉太多又无从下手，最后它们便永远留在了收藏夹里。还是每天在同一个重复做着机械练习，没有进行及时反馈和思考，因此在自学中，反思是非常重要的，通过和他人的对比，学习他们的好方法，再不断刻意练习，形成自己的好方法。

正如《暗时间》中作者提到的：

观察、阅读，并别忘带着你的理性去审视，弄清娱乐是娱乐，知识是知识，如果你想真正得到一些知识，最好过滤一下你的信息，否则你只是在别人的思考中得意着。

PART 2: Summary

The author restates the importance of finding a good teacher, and, providing a tip: you may need to change teachers as you yourself change. However, if we don't have a teacher, we can manufacture our own opportunities. We can keep in mind three Fs: Focus. Feedback. Fix it. And, again, we can form effective mental representations when we do repeatedly and analyze effectively, determine our weaknesses, and figure out ways to address them.

Deliberate practice is for everyone who dreams. So keep trying, learn it and do it.

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PART 3: Words and Expression

1.原文：Even the most motivated and intelligent student will advance more quickly under the tutelage of someone who knows the best order in which to learn things.

tutelage:n. when you are taught or looked after by someone 监护；指导

under somebody’s tutelage

仿句：I got a good record under the tutelage of my teacher.

2.原文：If you’re a flat-out beginner, any reasonably skilled teacher will do.

flat-out:adj.in a direct and completely way 完全的，不折不扣的；断然的，坦率的

straight outask / tell somebody flat out

仿句：It's a flat-out lie.

3.原文：It’s hard not to get bored and just zone out, letting your mind wander far outside the pool.

zone out: adj. to stop paying attention, for example because you are bored or tired （使）变得浑然无觉;（使）变得头昏脑胀

仿句：I tend to zone out after I read the grammar about two hours.

4.原文：This taught him to express ideas clearly and cogently.

cogently:adv.if a statement is cogent, it seems reasonable and correct痛切地；中肯地

仿句：His assessment was cogently argued.