Jack, when is your class!
Wyatt A. Brochu, Esq.
On Jul 24, 2016 9:31 PM, "Jack Folloni" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Folks -
About once a year I teach a "practical pistol" class. I do a section
called "Learning how to Learn". I cover about a dozen learning methods /
techniques that can be applied in your practice sessions. This is so
important and so fundamental, and yet - it's never been taught to me in any
firearm class I've taken. Furthermore, in my academic education
(kindergarten through college) this was never taught to me either.
Has anyone on this list ever been taught "How to learn" or more
specifically "How to train to become a better pistol shooter?"
Please share your thoughts - I'd love to learn from you!
Thanks & best wishes,
Jack
Move Five Steps Closer to Mastery
One key to mastery is what Florida State University psychology professor
Anders Ericsson calls deliberate practice
<https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/07/what-is-deliberate-practice/> –
a ‘lifelong period of… effort to improve performance in a specific domain.’
Deliberate practice isn’t running a few miles each day or banging on the
piano for twenty minutes each morning. It’s much more purposeful, focused,
and, yes painful. Follow these steps – over and over again for a decade –
and you just might become a master:
- Remember that deliberate practise has one objective: to improve
performance. ‘People who play tennis once a week for years don’t get any
better if they do the same thing each time,’ Ericsson has said. ‘Deliberate
practise is about changing your performance, setting new goals and
straining yourself to reach a bit higher each time.’
- Repeat, repeat, repeat. Repetition matters. Basketball greats don’t
shoot ten free throws at the end of team practise; they shoot five hundred.
- Seek constant, critical feedback. If you don’t know how you’re
doing, you won’t know what to improve.
- Focus ruthlessly on where you need help. While many of us work on
what we’re already good at, says Ericsson, ‘those who get better work on
their weaknesses.’
- Prepare for the process to be mentally and physically exhausting.
That’s why so few people commit to it, but that’s why it works.
