practice

10 Ways to Be a Better Learner: No. 6 – Practice, Deliberately

July 20, 2011

I’ll make this addition to the my “Better Learner” list a short one because I have already written about deliberate practice here before in “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? 8 Keys to Deliberate Practice.” That has actually proven to be one of the more popular post on Mission to Learn, and has even [...]

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How to Improve Concentration and Focus: 7 Tips

June 17, 2010

I’ve written about a range of habits related to learning, but one I have not yet covered is concentration – perhaps because I find it among the hardest of habits to truly master. I’m as apt as anybody to have my working memory hijacked by the temptations of multi-tasking, ….or simply to become distracted by [...]

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How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? 8 Keys to Deliberate Practice.

April 6, 2010

A New Yorker (or in some versions Arthur Rubinstein) is approached in the street near Carnegie Hall, and asked, “Pardon me sir, how do I get to Carnegie Hall?” He replies, “Practice, practice, practice.” (Wikipedia) We’ve all heard the old Carnegie Hall joke (well, at least those of us above a certain age have). More [...]

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Or the Importance of Setting Learning Goals

September 22, 2009

There is a part of me that resists the whole idea of setting goals for lifelong learning. With the world of tests and degrees behind me for the most part, I welcome the opportunity to be a dabbler, a dilettante, a jack-of-all-trades but master of none. Why should I add the stress of achieving goals [...]

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5 Traits of the Super Learner

June 4, 2008

How strong is your capacity to learn? Can you leap complex concepts with a single bound? Master a new language faster than a speeding locomotive? Roll your eyes at hyperbole without even blinking? Perhaps you are a super learner. “Secrets of the Super-Learners” is an article from a 1991 Harvard Magazine supplement that I seem [...]

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