“After all, even the casual runner

would see marked improvement if

they started tracking their
progress, setting stretch goals,
and getting advice from a coach.”
Deliberate Practice
[the video opens to show a graph
depicting the law of decreasing
and increasing Rewards.]
Man: Right, let’s take a look at how deliberate practice works and to do
that we will start where we left off on the models of increasing and decreasing
rewards.
[Graphic is displayed on the screen
On the left side, a graphic of the law of decreasing rewards and on the right, a
graphic of the law of increasing rewards.
Both graphics have in the vertical line the reward amount, the bottom
presenting less reward and the top, more reward. The horizontal line
represents the time, the far left meaning less time and as it goes to the right,
more time]
Remember that law of increasing returns states that the longer you do
something, the more you work, the more reward you get and the law of
decreasing returns says the less you work, the more reward you will get. So,
obviously, we want to focus on the law of increasing returns. However, the law
of increasing returns doesn’t look like this.
[Brings to the screen just the right graphic, with an exponential line of growth
and reward thru time]

You don’t just keep having

exponential returns like this.
 The graph, the chart probably is more sloopy, it looks something more like
this
[ the graphic is changed, making the growth exponential line into a smooth
beginning, representing more time without growth before the person starts
feeling the progress and rewards thru time spent]

where you have an imperative, an

initial discovery, followed by
rapid increase and then a slower
rate of improvement as you
become a world class expert.
Now, there
is another group who, during the initial discovery period, moves at a lower
rate.
[Creates another line, in a different color below the smooth “s” described
before. In this line, the growth over time is even smoother, making the graphic
almost like a straight line]
We call that arrested development or at least, these are the things that Angela
Dekwer explained in her book: Grit, the power of passion and perseverance.
She explained how people can be putting similar amounts of effort but having
different outcomes by using deliberate practice. Now, the other group is the
group who after a period of interest decided to drop out.
[Creates a third line, but instead of growing, it goes down on the rewarding
level at the end]
Let’s talk about the zone over here.

[Circle a common zone between

the three lines. In this interest
zone, each line will either stay the
same, grow or decrease]
We call this, the interest zone is where you are starting to explore new talents
and interests. This is the thing we discovered and talked in the chapter on
learning about your talents and interests.

You are exploring things and it’s

important to know when you’re in
this zone you should intriger and
trigger interest all the time. It
should be fun and playful. It
should be a period of discovery
with lower risk. Just some advice,
if you are a person who is
exposing somebody to a new
sport or learning a musical
instrument or helping them learn
to discipline, you want to make
sure it’s low risk and it’s fun
because if you make it too
difficult to them in this phase
here,
they are going to give up and drop out. And so it’s really important that while
they are in this phase, you are more interested in their success. Just realize
that people are less committed. They are looking for fast improvement. Once
they start to have some improvement, they can move into this second zone,
[Circles the end zone, after time was spent, on the far right side of the graphic,
what were the results, according to each group]

which is this deliberate practice

zone and in this zone,
where you have a slower rate of growth, people are so passionate. they find
interest in a new lapse of discovery and incremental improvements. They are
more interested in their mistakes and have coaches to help them point them
out and usually always have a systematic practice and measurement plan.
Now, let’s take a deeper look at the gap between arrested development and low
class development and how liberate practice can help you have increase
returns and have a higher level of performance.
[Zooms in into the gap formed between the first and second group, and the
difference in their results over time]

Let’s take an example. Let’s say

you are wanting to learn how to
play a racket sport. The first thing
you’d do is create a skill list.
[Inside the gap between this first
and second group, a list of the
necessary skills are shown. The
items are: Stance, balance, grip,
court position, swing, ball
judgement, concentration] What are all the
skills you’d need to master in order to improve your performance. And beat
your stance, your balance, your grip and you’d just keep going down until you
got through all the skills that you needed.
The next thing you’d do is create
a stretch goal. [A street goal list
appears right next to the skills
list. The stretch goal is 70 min per
day of foot work.A stretch goal is something just
beyond your current capability. So maybe, on your stance, you’re not always
maintaining your stance. Maybe somebody throws a ball on an odd place on
the court and then you are not able to maintain your stance and be ready for
the return. And so what you do is you set a goal, maybe 70 min a day to work
on your footwork and then you do that over and over again until you create the
habit where no matter what happens on the court you always have the correct
stance.

Then you have a coach. [A little

graphic with a coach outside of
these lists. An arrow comes from
coach towards the person with
the words: feedback
measurement written in it] Somebody who
could observe your performance and give you feedback and measurement to
see if you really have got it mastered it. Once you mastered it, then you move
to the next skill and you keep working on balance until you are able to do that
in any different situation as you are working to improve your game. And this
works no matter if it is a physical activity, a mental activity, a profession. You
just keep working on things deliberately until you improve your performance
and becomes a world class expert. Or at least really good at something.

[End of Video]