Peak

This book provides a research-driven perspective on how to improve simple skills - those for which there are straightforward, near term, and mostly quantitative metrics. The authors certainly claim that their results extend far beyond that, but besides ignoring the massive biases and more complex factors that underlie other skill classes, they simply don't provide any scientific evidence to back up those claims. The chapter on the brain is... not good, and will horrify anyone with knowledge of neuroscience developments in the last ~40 years. That being said, there's still some good lessons in here that one can apply in these simpler situations, especially when one already has some level of expertise.

If you want to acquire a new skill, try "deliberate practice". It is a much better approach than "10,000 Hour Rule" or "just practice". I really recommend this book for everyone.

Read this book on a whim. Not too much to say here, a pretty good treatment of the ideas of deliberate practice. Which makes sense because that's kind of the author's big thing. Not gonna cover it here, you can read Wikipedia on your own. I like that he presents the quality of practice as a sort of continuum. The takeaway being that you can basically always be practicing better, so... maybe try thinking about it?

Things I thought about:
- what are things I am doing that I would like to attempt to deliberately practice? what are things that I don't want to deliberately practice?
- how would I go about practicing better?