SIX KEYS TO ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE

1. PURSUE WHAT YOU LOVE
Passion is an incredible motivator. It fuels ‪#‎focus‬, ‪#‎resilience‬, and ‪#‎perseverance‬.

2. DO THE HARDEST WORK FIRST
We all move instinctively toward ‪#‎pleasure‬ and away from ‪#‎pain‬. Most great performers, Ericsson and others have found, delay ‪#‎gratification‬ and take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That's when most of us have the most ‪#‎energy‬ and the fewest distractions.

3. PRACTICE INTENSELY
Practice intensely, without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break. Ninety minutes appears to be the maximum amount of ‪#‎time‬ that we can bring the highest level of focus to any given activity. The evidence is equally strong that great performers practice no more than 4 hours a day.

4. SEEK EXPERT FEEDBACK, IN INTERMITTENT DOSES
The simpler and more precise the feedback, the more equipped you are to make adjustments. Too much ‪#‎feedback‬, too continuously can create cognitive overload, increase ‪#‎anxiety‬, and interfere with learning.

5. TAKE REGULAR RENEWAL BREAKS
Relaxing after intense effort not only provides an ‪#‎opportunity‬ to rejuvenate, but also to metabolize and embed learning. It's also during rest that the right hemisphere becomes more dominant, which can lead to creative breakthroughs.

6. RITUALIZE PRACTICE
Will and ‪#‎discipline‬ are wildly overrated. The best way to insure you'll take on difficult tasks is to build rituals — specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.

Content 14 dec 2014

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