Path for Learning Deliberate Practice (DP)
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- Date: Aug. 10, 2025, 9:36 p.m.
- Author: Donald F. Elger
Introduction
Learning: Learning is the process of producing lasting brain changes that improve knowledge and performance and that contribute to a better life and better groups.
Neuroplasticity: Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change its structure and function in response to experience, learning, or injury, forming new neural connections and strengthening or weakening existing ones.
Deliberate Practice (DP): Deliberate Practice is a method for learning and achieving goals that is both highly enjoyable and effective. It involves setting clear goals, breaking them into well-defined subgoals, and progressively attaining those subgoals through repeated growth cycles: (Get) high-quality information and encode it → (Apply) it in real situations → (Grow) by reinforcing what works and improving what doesn’t → (Repeat) until the subgoal is mastered. Shorthand: Get → Apply → Grow → Repeat.
Fundamentals (Essential Parts) of DP
Fundamentals of Memory
How to Learn Deliberate Practice → Do not learn DP by reading about it. Instead, get some information and start applying it today to things that you want to learn or accomplish.
Learning X with Deliberate Practice
Let X = anything that can be learned: Engineering, algebra, managing, active listening, coding, law, welding, basket weaving, chemistry, statistics, being charasmatic, leading, and so on.
- Examples of Learning X with DP
- X = Golf
- X = Small Talk
- X = Python
- Foundations