What determines good performance Is it talent IQ personality in intellectual jobs speed strength in athletics Is it hard work We all know washouts who are super smart or super gifted We also know plenty of people who work really hard and are only mediocre ID: 293753
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The Route to Good Performance: Deliberate PracticeSlide2
What determines good performance?
Is it talent? (IQ, personality in intellectual jobs; speed, strength in athletics)
Is it hard work?
We all know washouts who are super smart or super gifted. We also know plenty of people who work really hard and are only mediocre.Slide3
Deliberate Practice
So if it’s not talent, and it’s not hard work, what is it?
The answer is hard work
with
deliberate practice.
Deliberate practice is hard work done to emphasize the specific skills necessary to succeed.Slide4
Hard Work
Hard work
is
useful, but only up to a point.
Humans repeating an activity will reach a certain level of competence with enough repetition.
But repetition will not create high performance
People work 40 hours a week at tasks without improving.
Athletes practice day after day without improving.Slide5
Hard Work
Performance w/ Deliberate
Practice
Without Deliberate
Practice
Performance
Repetition
Previously thought ‘Max Performance’Slide6
Deliberate Practice
This explains why certain schools or academies produce high performers in certain fields over and over again.
Juliard
School of Performing Arts
2
nd
City Comedy Troupe
Penn State “Linebacker U” in the 80’s
Why?
Because the key to deliberate practice is identifying the behaviors that are to be improved and the techniques for improving them.
This is not an easy task. Those who’ve figured it out tend to produce excellent performers over and over again.
This is why coaches are valued.Slide7
Deliberate Practice
Does talent matter?
Of course, if an individual with more natural inclination engages in hard work and deliberate practice, they will succeed.
Is talent overrated?
Of course. Most people don’t engage in deliberate practice. Most people also don’t work hard. Even fewer both work hard AND engage in deliberate practice.Slide8
Tiger Woods
Is Tiger Woods the most talented person to ever play golf? Does he look like a great athlete?
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Tiger is 6’0” tall – slightly above the national average for a man.
He clearly has a naturally slight build.Slide9
Tiger Woods
Childhood friends describe him as “gawky” and a “bit of klutz”.
So how did he become the best golfer ever?
His father was an excellent teacher who spent 25 years training recruits in the Army.
His father took up golf in adulthood and became obsessed with learning everything he could about the game.
His father began training him at 16 months old.Slide10
Tiger Woods
He practiced different aspects of the game religiously
The effect was cumulative
He engaged in deliberate practice!