Day 10

Chapter 5 Principles of Deliberate Practice on the Job

PRACTICING WHILE GETTING WORK DONE

THE TOP GUN APPROACH TO LEARNING

KNOWLEDGE VERSUS SKILLS

A NEW APPROACH TO TRAINING

词汇学习：

less‧er /ˈlesə , -ər/  adjective [only before noun]

1 formal not as large, as important, or as much as something else OPP  greater

They originally asked for $5 million, but finally settled for a lesser sum.

to a lesser extent/degree

This was true in Madrid and, to a lesser extent, Valencia and Seville.

→ lesser mortals at mortal2, → to a greater or lesser extent at extent(1)

2 → the lesser of two evils

3 technical used in the names of some types of animal, bird, or plant that are slightly smaller than the main type

原文出处：What I do mean is that if you follow the principles of deliberate practice you can develop ways to identify the top performers in a field and train other, lesser performers and bring them up closer to that top level.

benign

/bɪˈnaɪn/ adjective

1 kind and gentle

He shook his head in benign amusement.

2 a benign tumour (=unnatural growth in the body) is not caused by cancer OPP malignant

ma‧lig‧nant /məˈlɪɡnənt/ adjective

1 medical a malignant disease is one such as cancer, which can develop in an uncontrolled way and is likely to cause someone’s death OPP  benign

She developed a malignant tumour in her breast.

2 formal showing that you hate someone

a malignant look

le‧sion /ˈliːʒən/ noun [countable] technical

damage to someone’s skin or part of their body such as their stomach or brain, caused by injury or illness

acute gastric lesions

原文出处：Tests have shown, for example, that some radiologists are much more accurate than others in distinguishing between benign and malignant lesions.

第五章终于开始把之前阐述了各种刻意练习的方法，引入了实践。这里用王牌空军的针对性空中打击训练，还有医学影像对疾病诊断的反馈，讲述了在实际创造价值和业绩的工作实务之前，怎样发现工作内容的实质，并完成对效用的提升，以及对实践中难以获取反馈的情况，怎样发现问题，获取提升。

三个刻意练习的误区，最具有普遍意义的大概就是“努力就能提高或成功”的假鸡汤了。

正好今天纠正自己体型，在看健身的理论，原来简单的俯卧撑，之前不仅做错了，也练错了位置，甚至造成肩背肌肉和筋膜的劳损。果然方法先行，努力在后啊。