From the course: Working with an Executive Coach
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From the course: Working with an Executive Coach
Accelerate your learning
- When a violinist told the famous composer Stravinsky that a part wasn't just difficult but unplayable, Stravinsky replied, "I don't want the sound "of someone playing this passage, "I want the sound of someone trying to play it." Working with an executive coach to truly learn something is more than knowing it and more than trying it. It's being able to do it consistently, even when the pressure is on. For our purposes, learning is practical. You need to be able to put it into practice. And the only way to consistently put things into practice is to practice. It's no coincidence the same word means both things. There are may ways to practice, but I want you to be aware of a special, deeply researched, and validated way to practice that should be part of your plan. It comes mainly from researcher K. Anders Ericsson's work about how people across performance domains achieve exceptional degrees of mastery. He calls it deliberate practice, and we'll summarize it it four guidelines…
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