Wisebread Writer's Wisdom: How to be an Expert

This is a great article by Philip Brewer on Wisebread.com. He distills the essence of becoming an expert in any subject into four steps. Mind you they are four difficult steps, but albeit achievable.

Enjoy this snippet:

Deliberate practice

Deliberate practice is just this:

1. performing your skill (or, more typically, a piece of it)
2. monitoring your performance
3. evaluating your success
4. figuring out how to do it better

and then repeating that sequence again and again.

That's it. That's how to become an expert. Most experts have done just that, for hours a day, for years.

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