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Discussion on: What was your "Deliberate Practice" this week?

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A few yeas ago I read "Badass", which tries to explain how to make users love your product.

The key concepts are "Perceptual Exposure" and "Deliberate Practice".

Perceptual exposure is the idea that you learn how things have to be when you see multiple good examples. It's good to teach things that aren't explainable easily, just see thousands of good examples and you get a feeling for what a good example is.

Deliberate practice is the idea to do things by yourself that result in something that triggers that feeling for a good example.

This should be a sure fire way to get good at something.

The problems are, as the things you want to learn get more complex, it's not easy to define good examples anymore, also the harder the skill, the fewer good examples are in the world. Also, what is deliberate practice for a specific skill?

My deliberate practice this month was learning Spanish with Duolingo and learning Kubernetes with "A Cloud Guru".