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About

This guide started as a manual for developing academic writing skills but ended up being a guide to learning anything using deliberate practice.

Written by Dominik Lukeš between 2022 and 2024. Feedback welcome.

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Quick summary: Deliberate practice

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The key limit to fluent performance is working memory. Deliberate practice is the only way to overcome the limits of working memory. This guide outlines:

1. How to think about the role of working memory in any activity
2. How to identify the blockers working memory limitations impose on learning
3. How to design practice activities to overcome those blockers </aside>

Principles and theory behind deliberate practice

Working memory principles

Working Memory and How to Overcome Its Limitations Through Practice

Fluency as the Target of Practice

Working memory and knowledge

Schemas and chunks: What needs to go in your memory

Two kinds of memory and two kinds of retrieval

Key points about mental representations and working memory

Methods and techniques of deliberate practice

Principles of practice

Practice for Performance

Avoiding Task Misalignment for Successful Practice

Approaches to practice

Four Approaches to Practice