Practice More Efficiently | Deliberate Practice & Skill Improvement

Is it true that if you love sth you're passionate about sth you will learn it faster ?

Wonderful video! So charming. I love the way you broke it up into small segments to vary the camera angles and backgrounds and avoid a long monologue.

You really take the viewer on a journey. And you visualize the concepts so well--the graphs really make the ideas clear.

You make learning about learning enjoyable!

has there been any deliberate practice research on drawing

how do you get feedback? please

Thank you

How would you go about identifying the expert skills?

If you got feedback, what do you do with it? So if I do know what I'm bad at, do I practice in that main area I'm bad at? Sounds like an obvious question, but just wanted to make sure.

Very interesting about plateaus in the beginning. I've searched information about memory in learning and scientific self-education theories for a year, and your channel is such a gift!

Thanks

Don't know if you are going to read this, but thanks for all the content you put out Benjamin! As an electronic engineer student the methods and principles you share have been of great aid on studying better and more efficient in time!
Love your videos fam, the way you teach with examples, graphics and understandable language is very nice, also the mini skits like the intro of this video are a fun plus :)
Godspeed

My Judo instructor always said, “Perfect practice makes perfect”

I stagnate when I can't find what I do that isn't ideal.

In competitive PvP video games (that aren't just about faster and more accurate motions), I'm not able to see what better players do differently than what I do.

Knowing deep learning reinforcement learning helps me realise how I learn stuff. Thr exploration vs exploitation problem. Trying something suboptimal temporarily to try a new avenue for progress.

Overall, there is either that paradigm shift strategy where it's super hard to come with a new idea of something that could be better. Or there is the incremental machine learning style improvement that is limited by our ability to sense the mistake we make.

I find progressing at the piano far easier than progressing at advanced video game mastery. With the piano, I can feel when I make a wrong note. I can feel when I hesitate. I can hear when I don't like the intonation.

The problem is also how to impact the result. For example, learning the flute or oboe is far harder than the piano. There are dozens of muscles from the stomach and throat and lips that control the sound. I can't find what to do differently to get a cleaner sound. Meanwhile, it's far easier on the piano to feel what muscle change makes an improvement on intonation. And of course 90% of piano learning is about huge finger motions that are easy to evaluate.

It would be cool to have videos about how to identify expert skill and how to set up self-evaluation and especially feedback. Especially especially if you don't have access to an expert. I know this all depends on the domains and skills but maybe there a some general(ish) strategies? Or just some real-world examples of skills, self-evaluation and feedback?

Practice is good, but I think in the end, we finally need to settle on the most important things to practice. I have devoted a lot of time to TWO things: learning to write creative coding for the purpose of analyzing and trading in financial markets.. AND... drawing and painting, my lifelong main interests. I believe I created some remarkable coding results, programs that go well above and beyond your typical results in analyzing and profitably trading in markets. But even moreso, having devoted well beyond my "10,000 hours" of "practice" to my beloved interests of drawing and painting (art!), I am now represented in a growing number of museums, apparently limited only by my heretofore ability (and time) devoted to pursuing my own self-promotion. I am not particularly keen on spending time on self-promotion, but at this point, more efforts along these lines would produce much greater impact. But back to topic, I weigh in that mindless "practice" is worthless. One must be constantly self-urged to rethink creativity. Strive for something. I am bored to tears by those so-called artists who merely wish to develop adequate skills, and produce something "marketable". Sorry for all the quotes, but I'm trying to make a point. Art is one of the most fascinating fields of endeavor, because it can run the ranks from banal illustration to miraculously brilliant real works of art, works of genius. My main focus is on drawing, and I work at constant study of the real masters, drawing lots every day if at all possible, but not to mindlessly "just draw". I focus on thinking of new creative views, new challenging creative urges to create something actually new. But most of all, I focus on quality. I am bored to tears by mindless production of more unnecessary "illustrations".

To improve as a teacher, the expert skill is picking good students.
QED.

gpt is now my main feedback lmao

Hoping this channel grows exponentially, both for you and others. As always, great content! Thanks for all your time and effort

I have heard similar ideas from Principles by Dalio. A good video topic in the area of deliberate practice for learning "Why, when we observe an expert performing an action we are unable to duplicate it even after years of practice or more likely never." From the sheer number of coaches in the world, humans seem to lack the ability to mimic or grasp the experts actions even after numerous lessons or YT videos. Proprioception is something we are not wired for or seem to be able to learn.

Thx for sharing Ben!

Thank you, sound wisdom. No pun intended. Yea, pun intended.

If that ball didn't go into that basket, I might die

Be careful of passion as it could lead to missing out on other things that could optimise improvement. Eg, sleeping as you have to practice more, cancelled pyhsio as you dont want to cancel practice, eating well as you dont have enough time between practices..i speak from a sporting stance and maybe the word to be more careful of is obsession.

What I struggle with is "when" to practice. When should I drop down my book and practice what I learned? how many times should I repeat this action? When I watch a course or read a book, I opt to finish them and "then" practice and apply what've learned.

I use deliberate practice to train in the field of supermemory. Supermemory is a skill for memorizing information, while deliberate practice is the method to develop that skill.