Despite repetition, most people fail to become experts at what they do

Tuesday, September 04, 2012 Francisco Carneiro 1 Comments

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Despite repetition, most people fail to become experts at what they do, no matter how many years they spend doing it. Experience does not equate to expertise.

In field after field, when it comes to centrally important skills—stockbrokers recommending stocks, parole officers predicting recidivism, college admissions officials judging applicants—people with lots of experience were no better at their jobs than those with less experience. ^{Talent Is Overrated}

Research concludes that we need deliberate practice to improve performance. Unfortunately, deliberate practice isn’t something that most of us understand, let alone engage in on a daily basis. This helps explain why we can work at something for decades without really improving our performance.

Deliberate practice is hard. It hurts. But it works. More of it equals better performance and tons of it equals great performance.

Most of what we consider practice is really just playing around — we’re in our comfort zone.

http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/07/what-is-deliberate-practice/

Ps To get ahead you need to exit your confort zone and explore. To get ahead in the Bike i need to do intervals at a pulse way out. Then i get scared and then i improve. I think this guy is on the spot.