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- 1. Boost Learning with Deliberate Practice Hou Yifeng
- 2. Amateur Ping Pong Player
- 3. Semi-Professional Drummer Hard Rock Cafe Singapore Rock Festival
- 4. Professional Software Engineer ● Python Django - API Auth Server ● Ruby on Rails - Leave Management Web App ● React Native - Kopi Order Mobile App ● Ruby on Rails, React - Retro Web App ● React D3.js Scala - Data Visualization Web App ● Java Spring Boot, Angular - Rating Management Web App ● Kotlin Spring Boot, Angular - Electricity Web App ● Java Spring boot, Angular - Port Management Web App ● Java Android - Airline Booking Mobile App ● React Native - Licencing Hybrid Mobile App
- 5. Time Investment Ping Pong Around 15 mins / weekday Drums 1 hour / weekday 3 hours / Saturday 3 hours / Sunday Software Engineering 8 hours / weekday 4 hours / weekends
- 6. Problems of Time Investment ● Time investment is limited ● Time investment does not guarantee progress What is missing?
- 8. What is this mysterious Deliberate Practice? K. Anders Ericsson Amazon
- 9. Deliberate Practice in Practice Ping Pong Software Engineering Drums Deliberate Practice
- 10. Agenda ● What is Deliberate Practice? ● How does Deliberate Practice help to boost learning? ● Examples to apply Deliberate Practice ● Where to go from here?
- 11. What is Deliberate Practice
- 12. Mozart: Gifted or Well Trained?
- 13. Experiment by Japanese Psychologist Ayako Sakakibara 24 children became pitch perfect in one year Myth of Pitch Perfect is broken! Link to the study
- 14. Characteristics of Deliberate Practice ● Become pitch perfect ● Start with easy chords, add 1 new chord at a time ● 4 to 5 short session every day ● Trainer will tell the children whether they give correct or wrong answers ● Add new chords when all existing chords are correctly identified ● Has well-defined, specific goals ● Take baby steps to reach longer-term goals ● Is focused ● Involves feedback ● Requires getting out of one’s comfort zone
- 15. Deliberate Practice in a Nutshell Get outside your comfort zone but do it in a focused way, with clear goals, a plan for reaching those goals, and a way to monitor your progress. Oh, and figure out a way to maintain your motivation. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (2016, Anders Ericsson)
- 16. How does Deliberate Practice work?
- 17. How does deliberate practice work? Adaptability London Cab Driver Study Acquiring “the Knowledge” of London's Layout Drives Structural Brain Changes
- 18. How does deliberate practice work? Adaptability: Human’s Tendency to Maintain Homeostasis There is a growing body of evidence that both the structure and the function of the brain change in response to various sorts of mental training, in much the same way as your muscles and cardiovascular system respond to physical training. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (2016, Anders Ericsson)
- 20. Mental Representation A mental representation is a mental structure that corresponds to an object, an idea, a collection of information, or anything else, concrete or abstract, that the brain is thinking about Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (2016, Anders Ericsson)
- 21. Power of Mental Representation 20180724 42708102
- 22. Summary Mental Representation Specific Goals Take Baby Steps Stay Focused Push out of comfort zone Feedback Adapt Update
- 23. Example 1 Ping Pong How to become faster, better, stronger?
- 24. Ping Pong Goal 1: Keep the ball on the table Specific Goals Take Baby Steps Stay Focused Push out of comfort zone Feedback Adapt Update Focused Observation Reflex Upgrade Muscle Control 101
- 25. Ping Pong Goal 2: Make the ball hard to return Specific Goals Take Baby Steps Stay Focused Push out of comfort zone Feedback Adapt Update ✓ Focused Observation ✓ Reflex Upgrade ✓ Muscle Control 101 Muscle Control 201: Spin
- 26. Ping Pong Goal 3: Distract opponents Specific Goals Take Baby Steps Stay Focused Push out of comfort zone Feedback Adapt Update ✓ Focused Observation ✓ Reflex Upgrade ✓ Muscle Control 101 ✓ Muscle Control 201: Spin Develop Trash Talk Library
- 27. Example 2 Software Engineer How to pick up a new tech-stack fast?
- 28. Tech Stack Web Application: Spring Boot + Angular Specific Goals Take Baby Steps Stay Focused Push out of comfort zone Feedback Adapt Update Language: Java, JS Architecture: MVC Dependency Injection 101 TDD: JUnit, Jasmine, Protractor
- 29. Tech Stack Mobile Application: Android Specific Goals Take Baby Steps Stay Focused Push out of comfort zone Feedback Adapt Update ✓ Language: Java, JS ✓ Architecture: MVC, MVP ✓ Dependency Injection 101 Dependency Injection 201 ✓ TDD: JUnit, Jasmine, Protractor, Espresso
- 30. Tech Stack Hybrid Application: React Native Specific Goals Take Baby Steps Stay Focused Push out of comfort zone Feedback Adapt Update ✓ Language: Java, JS, Bash ✓ Architecture: MVC, MVP, Clean Architecture ✓ Dependency Injection 101 ✓ Dependency Injection 201 ✓ TDD: JUnit, Jasmine, Protractor, Espresso, Detox
- 31. Where to go from here? ● Read the book ● Pick a field of interest and dive in with Deliberate Practice yhou@pivotal.io
- 32. Shout outs
- 33. Q&A
Editor's Notes
- #2: Time give a signal from Fede
- #3: Have not played much Ping Pong before Pivotal Pivotal have some very good Ping Pong players I was always crushed at first Now I can give my opponents a challenging match for most of the time
- #4: Performed at Hard rock cafe Performed at Singapore Rock Festival Songs our band play Metallica - Master of Puppets Iron Maiden - Tornado of Souls Deep Purple - Highway star
- #6: Ping Pong: around 15 mins / weekday Drums: 1 hour / weekday, 3 hours / Saturday 3 hours / Sunday Software Engineering: 8 hours / weekday, 4 hours / weekends
- #9: Author: K. Anders Ericsson Researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance Books: Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
- #10: Faster progress with deliberate practice than normal practice Motivation to learn deliberate practice: Lose less hair Have more sleep at night Improve efficiency for more important things in life Emotional stable, not get demoralized when seeing other people learning very fast
- #11: First two abstract Then concrete examples
- #13: When Mozart was only 7 years old, he could already play fluent piano and violin. But he has one skill that surprises all people, which is pitch perfect or absolute pitch. He can recreate a note without being told what music note he hears Back in his time, few experienced musician could match what Mozart did. Hint, only people with music training develops pitch perfect. The myth was revealed much later by a Japanese psychologies She designed a year long training to train children to recognize chords and notes. At the end of one year, all 24 children developed absolute pitch. While normally only one in ten thousand people developes perfect pitch.
- #15: P460 Feedback: Generally speaking, meaningful positive feedback is one of the crucial factors in maintaining motivation. Out of comfort zone: The best way to get past any barrier is to come at it from a different direction, which is one reason it is useful to work with a teacher or coach.
- #18: Gym example, grow muscles, Mental exercises, read more books or do more coding, MRI scanning of masters in fields like music, sports and so on. Parts of the brain of these masters are more developed than normal people http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7613621.stm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221101267X
- #20: Abstraction Generalization Abstraction or generalization that can be used to identify a pattern and make response to it.
- #22: This might not be obvious at first, but if you stare at the screen long enough, you will realize the second number string is the direct reverse of the first number string