2018-01-18
22 分钟So let's say you're trying to get really good at something.
Best you can possibly be is practice enough?
Is this thing called deliberate practice enough, or is there something else that's really important?
Turns out there is.
It's this thing called directed practice.
And we're going to talk about that and the role of somebody else in that in today's good Life project riff.
And along with that, some really cool new research on how nature affects our attention and engagement.
And it just keeps piling on the argument for us getting out of our indoor areas.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So how do you get really good at something?
That's been a question that's been sort of persistently on my mind for many, many years, probably decades, actually.
As somebody way, way, way back in the ancient days when I was in college, I actually came really close to studying performance psychology because I've just been fascinated by it.
I was a gymnast as a kid, and I had this sort of predisposition for discipline and progress.
Just one of the things that, for that particular sport, is critically important, because even though you compete as a team, there's a really big solo aspect to it.
I became really fascinated with what makes people do the work to become extraordinary at anything chunky years down the road.
Reading Malcolm Gladwell's famous book, outliers introduced the world to the research of Kay Anders Ericsson, who is one of the leading researchers in the field of excellence, expertise and greatness.
What allows somebody to tap their fullest potential, become extraordinary, become world class great.
The 10,000 hours rule was popularized as this thing that you had to, quote, put in that amount of time in order to become extraordinary in any given field.
We now know that, in fact, the 10,000 hours is a fairly gross misrepresentation of the original research by Ericsson.
I had a chance to actually sit down with Ericsson a while back and explore in a lot more detail, what does it actually take to become extraordinary, potentially the best in the world, or at least the best that you are capable of becoming in any given pursuit that matters to you.