PART 1: Words and Expression

1. frustrating experience: 令人沮丧的经历  （depressing experience；dispiriting experience）

eg. This is an extremely frustrating experience for me.

2. hone

n. a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors 磨刀石；想念；抱怨

vt. sharpen with a hone "hone a knife" ;  make perfect or complete 用磨刀石磨

(hoe: 锄；锄头）

e.g. I set about honing my English reading ability.

3. His performance was dead-on average.

adj. accurate and to the point 完全正确的

e.g. His summary about this book was a dead-on meditation.

4. audacity

n. fearless daring; aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery  大胆,无畏; 鲁莽;胆大妄为,厚颜无耻

synonymous：audaciousness, temerity

e.g. I was astonished by his audacity.

5. the vantage point

n.优势,有利地位

synonymous：advantage

e.g. It's a vantage point to see the whole town.

6. The flute that would have astonished aficionados a century ago.

n. If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it 酷爱…者；…迷

近义词：fan

e.g. I am not an aficionado of the theater.

PART 2: Thoughts

You wish to think about it: You wish to climb a mountain. You're not sure how high you want to go-that peak looks an awfully long way off- but you know you want to get higher than you currently are. You could simply take off on whichever path looks promising and hope for the best, but you're probably not going to get very far. Or you could rely on a guide who has been to the peak and knows the best way there.------INTRODUCTION

正如少有人走的路一样，我们可以选择呆在舒适区。但假如想走的更远，就要不断的PUSH自己向前，通过向那些大神学习，多看书，找方法多练习，让自己也走向“高峰”。

For much of what we do in life, it's perfectly fine to reach a middling level of performance and just leave it like that.

Once a person reaches that level of “acceptable” performance and automaticity, the additional years of "practice" don't lead to improvement.

或许这也是很多人的误区， 我们总认为只要我们多练习，却不晓得光靠努力练习并不是最佳路线，要讲究技术的刻意去练习，有目的的练习，这就是作者接下来要跟我们讲解的“purposeful practice”.

    第一次参加这样的活动，做这样的笔记练习，感觉自己效率很慢，在慢慢寻找方法精进，尤其在part 1部分，一直在找不同的字典进行对比参照造句，对于语法这方面自己很差，所以summary也需要花很多时间写。其实这些都是自己比较弱的地方，想过方法去练，但效果没有很好，就像大学读书时自己明明是寝室里最努力花时间学习的，但最后成绩却是倒数的。

      正如这本书作者所写的，要刻意的去练习，不是机械化的，要有目的性和方法，这也是参加这个阅读群的原因，有人进行指导练习如何更好的阅读练习，顺便提高自己英语。我觉得最近在看的How to read a book也是刻意练习，以前看书看看就好，看了就忘，这本书让我明白原来看书也要讲究这么多方法。

PART 3: Summary

Through an experiment and some examples the author tells us "deliberate practice" is the gold standard.  And applying the principles of deliberate practice is the best way to design practice methods in any area. If we just practice and don't follow the principles it's just an automated level of performance. It doesn't lead to improvement. " Purposeful practice" is a step toward deliberate practice.