Deliberate Practice (Day 174)

When I first started writing a daily blog, it was so hard. After a while, it becomes easy. I have grown a "thicker skin" to just share anything on my mind now. But this "practice" ends up being just some random babbling, without providing any value. It becomes a daily journal, and I feel that I stopped improving with this new habit.

When the first 10,000-hour rule came out, the focus was on the 10,000 hours. Then after reading "Mastery" by Robert Greene, I learned that it's not the hours that you put in, the 10,000 hours have to be "deliberate practices"--focus on the parts you suck and repeat until you get better and more comfortable.

To have better "nutrition" in the article, it is not a journal that I need to produce, it's the deliberate thoughts I put into writing and producing valuable contents to share.

After 170+ days of writing, this is my "candid review" of the status of this practice. I don't want this to be an "easy habit" just to chitchat, but actually make it a habit that I learn something valuable everyday, or make some progress at that, and being able to share.

I have paused a bit yesterday and today, to read what others write on IH, and there are so many good contents. Thanks for being an inspiration y'all! And it's a reminder to myself that the only way to write with ease and confidence is if I can learn something valuable everyday before I start writing. That, is the habit I'd like to build.