What I Learned From a Year of Deliberate Practice

Practice has been most useful when I pick something specific to improve. Simply spending another year doing a familiar task doesn't tell me whether I'm getting better at the difficult part.

I don't have a dramatic before-and-after to report. I do find that paying closer attention to feedback changes what I notice next time. It also helps to keep the exercise small enough that I'll actually repeat it when work gets busy.