Expect and be OK with failure

Famous people talked about how failure is a normal part of learning.

They described having failed many times before they became successful and framed mistakes as a necessary part of deliberate practice that led them to their achievements.

Full concentration---Deliberate practice is difficult when you face distractions that make it hard to stay on task, like noise, social media, or people nearby.

Instead of writing an essay with your phone beside you while hanging out with your friends, you might go to a quiet library and tuck your phone in your backpack.

Working on weaknesses:?Rather than doing things that you already do well, deliberate practice focuses on the things that are hard for you.

For example, you might replay the part of your trumpet solo with the hard high notes that you’ve been having trouble with, rather than the parts that you know well.?

Feedback:?Deliberate practice involves finding out what you got right and where you made mistakes by asking a teacher or coach or checking your work.

For example, if you made mistakes on your long-division homework, you might review your work again and talk to your teacher about how you can solve those problems correctly in the future.

Repetition until mastery:?Deliberate practice requires you to keep working on your weaknesses, stay on task, and get feedback until you master your specific goal.

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Thank you?....?How do you motivate to engage in deliberate practice, which tends to be more demanding than shallow practice?

Practice that led them to their achievements.

Tolerate feeling frustrated and confused:?A student told his life story, from growing up poor and having trouble learning in elementary school to graduating from MIT.

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He shared that you make a lot of mistakes as you work on your weaknesses, which can be frustrating and confusing, but it means you’re in the “stretch zone.”

Rather than thinking it’s a bad sign and time to give up, this is actually the time to keep going. People can learn to tolerate their frustration more and more with practice.

Question your beliefs about talent:?An actor, an athlete, and a musician talked about how practice led them to be successful in their different life goals—and none of them mentioned talent.

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People mistakenly think that talent is the most important factor because they don’t see all the hours of practice that go into people’s final performances—like an actor taking days to memorize lines, a swimmer waking up at dawn for months to practice the butterfly stroke, or a novelist writing for years to complete a manuscript.

To solidify this lesson, the researchers showed adolescents anonymous quotes from other students that described their practice habits and preferences.

For example, one quote said, “I thought the kids who were good at fractions were just smarter than me. But in the past couple of months, I realized that by doing deep practice, I could get just as many fraction problems right as they could.

When I work hard and do deep practice on my fractions homework, I come to class being able to answer just as many problems as the other kids.”

Finally, the researchers asked the adolescents to write a short letter to other students who didn’t know about deliberate practice to communicate the significance of what they had learned. (The researchers explain that “one of the most effective ways to persuade a participant of a message is to have the participant advocate the message to others.”?

?This “saying-is-believing” effect influences their later memory and impression of the topic.

Brief lessons motivated adolescents to engage in deliberate practice.

If you want your kids to tap into these benefits, tell and show them how much you practice to work on goals, how you experience failure on an everyday basis, and how you tolerate frustration and confusion.

Remind your kids about how their favorite soccer players or swimmers work with their coaches to get feedback. Encourage your children to talk to their siblings, cousins, or friends about how they use deliberate practice to prepare for their tap dance performance so that they can reap the benefits of the “saying-is-believing” effect.

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Working on weaknesses:?Rather than doing things that you already do well, deliberate practice focuses on the things that are hard for you.

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For example, you might replay the part of your trumpet solo with the hard high notes that you’ve been having trouble with, rather than the parts that you know well.

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Feedback:?Deliberate practice involves finding out what you got right and where you made mistakes by asking a teacher or coach or checking your work.

For example, if you made mistakes on your long-division homework, you might review your work again and talk to your teacher about how you can solve those problems correctly in the future.

Repetition until mastery:?Deliberate practice requires you to keep working on your weaknesses, stay on task, and get feedback until you master your specific goal.

Tolerate feeling frustrated and confused:? you make a lot of mistakes as you work on your weaknesses, which can be frustrating and confusing, but it means you’re in the “stretch zone.”

Rather than thinking it’s a bad sign and time to give up, this is actually the time to keep going. People can learn to tolerate their frustration more and more with practice.

Question your beliefs about talent:?An actor, an athlete, and a musician talked about how practice led them to be successful in their different life goals—and none of them mentioned talent.

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