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    deliberate practice.

    Habits + Deliberate Practice = Mastery

    To become great, certain skills do need to become automatic. Basketball


    players need to be able to dribble without thinking before they can move on to
    mastering layups with their nondominant hand. Surgeons need to repeat the first
    incision so many times that they could do it with their eyes closed, so that they
    can focus on the hundreds of variables that arise during surgery. But after one
    habit has been mastered, you have to return to the effortful part of the work and
    begin building the next habit.
    Mastery is the process of narrowing your focus to a tiny element of success,
    repeating it until you have internalized the skill, and then using this new habit as
    the foundation to advance to the next frontier of your development. Old tasks
    become easier the second time around, but it doesn’t get easier overall because
    now you’re pouring your energy into the next challenge. Each habit unlocks the
    next level of performance. It’s an endless cycle.

    MASTERING ONE HABIT

    MASTERING A FIELD
    FIGURE 16: The process of mastery requires that you progressively layer improvements on top of one another, each habit building upon the last until a new level of performance has been
    reached and a higher range of skills has been internalized.

    Although habits are powerful, what you need is a way to remain conscious of
    your performance over time, so you can continue to refine and improve. It is
    precisely at the moment when you begin to feel like you have mastered a skill—
    right when things are starting to feel automatic and you are becoming
    comfortable—that you must avoid slipping into the trap of complacency.
    The solution? Establish a system for reflection and review.

    HOW TO REVIEW YOUR HABITS AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS


    In 1986, the Los Angeles Lakers had one of the most talented basketball teams
    ever assembled, but they are rarely remembered that way. The team started the
    1985–1986 NBA season with an astounding 29–5 record. “The pundits were
    saying that we might be the best team in the history of basketball,” head coach
    Pat Riley said after the season. Surprisingly, the Lakers stumbled in the 1986
    playoffs and suffered a season-ending defeat in the Western Conference Finals.
    The “best team in the history of basketball” didn’t even play for the NBA
    championship.
    After that blow, Riley was tired of hearing about how much talent his players
    had and about how much promise his team held. He didn’t want to see flashes of
    brilliance followed by a gradual fade in performance. He wanted the Lakers to

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