How do top players practice?
While watching the figure skating competition of the Winter Olympics, in addition to admiring the beautiful movements of the athletes, I also sighed at the strength of some top players, which is really strong.
Their moves are much more difficult than ordinary players, and they have to challenge the high difficulty even at the risk of making mistakes.
One has to admire their courage. However, after in-depth understanding, you will find that there is a lot of hard practice behind this courage.
Top figure skaters tend to practice 8 to 10 hours or more, compared to some average athletes who train 4 to 5 hours a day.
Beckham, who is famous for kicking free kicks, takes thousands of free kicks every training session. This amount of exercise is unimaginable for ordinary people. I believe that it is this unknown amount of hard training that has created his extraordinary skills.
But there are also many people who think that the reason why these top players are doing so well is more because of their talent, which is a natural talent.
Daniel Coyle, author of Act Like a Master, has a different view.
He took advantage of the opportunity of working in a magazine to observe and get in touch with the world's top players in sports, art, business, technology and other fields.
After summarizing the research, he found that the effect of practice is far beyond our imagination. These top masters have spent a lot of time and carried out high-intensity practice to achieve remarkable achievements.
The same is true for learning. He believes that the key to good academic performance is a lot of practice. Reading books, doing problems, and memorizing words all require a lot of practice.
As ordinary people, we may not be able to reach the height of the top masters in work or study, but we can still make continuous progress by learning from the masters.
Keep practicing to make your life full of hope and opportunity.
A study conducted by a foreign university found that the average weekly training volume of top athletes is about twice that of ordinary athletes. Whether it is piano, football, tennis, painting and so on.
It can be said that the achievements of the masters are the result of deliberate training.
Many people will have the experience that after a lot of practice, our use of a certain skill suddenly becomes very smooth and handy, as if we have learned.
These exercises make our neural networks more active, our long-term memory recalled faster, and our physical memory stronger.
In this way, when faced with a task, you can quickly and accurately locate the problem, come up with a solution, and then execute it efficiently.
Taking myself as an example, when I first started writing, I had to think for a long time to write 500 words, and I felt that I had no ideas. Even if I had ideas, the typing speed could not keep up. At that time, I felt that my level could not be improved at all.
But after gritted my teeth and persisted in writing for a period of time, one day I suddenly felt that my thoughts and words appeared in my mind quickly, and my typing speed improved a lot. A lot of progress.
It can be said that a lot of practice is a process of accumulation. Once a certain critical point is broken, a qualitative leap will occur.
Learn to design what and how to practice.
If you want to improve a skill and get good grades, in addition to a lot of practice, you must master the scientific method.
For any skill, you must design a set of practice methods that suit you and enrich your practice content in order to continuously improve yourself.
- Conduct benchmarking exercises.
The so-called benchmarking exercise is to compare the original or high-level works or actions.
Observe carefully, and try to figure out the movements and details over and over again.
Then go to practice by yourself, compare the standard and the original work while practicing, and constantly revise your practice method.
Take writing, for example.
The book "Act Like a Master" introduces: Some writers will copy fragments of classic works word by word, the purpose is to let the writers feel the charm of classic words and gradually form a good sense of language.
On this basis we can go further.
For some good articles, we can imitate them, then compare them, carefully analyze the details, and learn how the author organizes the language, lays out the articles, and what is the difference between them and their own content.
Through comparison, we can recognize our own weaknesses, learn the advantages of masters, summarize and reflect, and continue to practice in the subsequent writing.
- Pay attention to basic exercises.
The book "Act Like a Master" believes that skills are divided into hard skills and soft skills. Hard skills require the ability to perform certain actions accurately every time, such as shooting in football, reciting words, and playing some musical instruments. These skills Repeat the training many times to form an instinctive memory that can be easily used when needed.
The best way to practice such skills is to break them down into steps, and each step is subdivided into its smallest unit.
The authors call them skill blocks, and by practicing these skill blocks daily, you can build a solid foundation for combining exercises.
The advantage of this is that you can thoroughly understand and master every aspect of the skill. It may be slow and boring at the beginning, but it will become faster and faster later, and the level will be higher and higher.
- Control over practice time.
The first point is to practice interval. Don't use concentrated practice too much, and practice at any time to keep your brain active on the skill.
Point 2 is to practice immediately after completing the task. The practice at this time can correct one's own mistakes in time and deepen the correct cognition of details.
The third point is not to worry about the time of practice, but to pay attention to the number and quality of practice.
Use the number of high-quality exercises as a yardstick for exercise effectiveness.
write at the end
The best way for us to grow is to learn from the masters. In addition to the methods, it is more important to learn the self-discipline and persistence of the masters.
There is a saying that you don't see hope until you persevere, but because you have perseverance, you see hope.
I hope that everyone with ideals in their hearts can become a real master.