Better Aging Through Practice, Practice, Practice [NYTimes]

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The deep dive into an endeavor reaps many benefits. You could substitute golf for tennis in this article. Oh and hey, Dan Plan, what about this?

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To learn most of these things, through struggling to improve, you will need the personal attention of a coach. You may have heard of the psychologist K. Anders Ericsson and the “10,000 hours of practice” rule. It is often misconstrued a bit: The key is typically not the time you put in to get better, but the time you spend under the watchful eye of a coach, teacher or trainer — someone who can spot quickly what you are doing wrong and immediately correct it, or try to. I won’t live long enough to have 10,000 hours to devote to personalized tennis training, but I have spent lots of time with a coach. There can be no improvement — not the kind I’m talking about — without that coaching.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/better-aging-through-practice-practice-practice.html