Anne-Laure Le Cunff · Ness Labs · 2020
Deliberate Practice
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, “practice makes perfect” is “said to encourage someone to continue to do something many times, so that they will learn to do it very well.” But does practice really make perfect? We tend to see practice as tireless repetition of the same.
Why we picked it
By questioning whether repetition alone produces mastery, the article sharpens an often-blurry distinction in how people improve.
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