Master a practical skill with deliberate practice

Use this guide when you have been practising a skill for a while but your progress has stalled, or when you want to learn a new practical skill efficiently. Have a notebook or a simple digital log and a way to record your work, such as a phone camera.

Step by step

1. Define what good looks like

   Find examples of the standard you want to reach, such as a performance, a finished piece of work or a skilled person doing the task. Write down what makes it good in specific terms. This gives you a target to compare your own work against.