{"id":63,"date":"2019-04-23T20:41:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T20:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/?p=63"},"modified":"2019-04-23T20:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T20:41:03","slug":"when-you-dont-get-better-with-repetition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/2019\/04\/23\/when-you-dont-get-better-with-repetition\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Don\u2019t Get Better with Repetition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Abdulrhman-shared-a-drawing-with-you-24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1188\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Abdulrhman-shared-a-drawing-with-you-24.png 1188w, https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Abdulrhman-shared-a-drawing-with-you-24-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Abdulrhman-shared-a-drawing-with-you-24-768x370.png 768w, https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Abdulrhman-shared-a-drawing-with-you-24-1024x493.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1188px) 100vw, 1188px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember how they always say that you get better with reputation? Do you think this is true all the time? What about if you keep repeating something wrong over and over and you get 10% improvement instead of 30%?<\/p>\n<p>This how all started. I was reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B074ZKB2QT\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\"><strong>Great at Work<\/strong><\/a> the other day, and the following paragraph caught my attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Top performers did less and more: less volume of activities, more concentrated effort. This insight overturns much conventional thinking about focusing that urges you to choose a few tasks to prioritize. Choice is only half of the equation\u2014you also need to obsess. This finding led us to reformulate the \u201cwork scope\u201d practice and call it \u201cdo less, then obsess.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Hansen, Morten T. Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More (pp. 5-6). Simon &amp; Schuster. Kindle Edition<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And then this ...<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Power of One: Pick one and only one skill at a time to develop. It\u2019s hard to master a skill if you\u2019re also working on ten others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Hansen, Morten T. Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More (p. 75). Simon &amp; Schuster. Kindle Edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let me try to digest that with something I am trying to excel at which is writing and drawing (you would figure this out by reading this blog \ud83d\ude05)<\/p>\n<p>If I want to be a better writer, should I read more books or take two paragraphs that I like and study them word by word? (Got this tip from <a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2019\/03\/19\/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts-safi-bahcall\/\">Safi Bahcall<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>If I want to better at drawing, do I entirely focus on how small details make a difference or should I keep copying tons of illustrations without being fully in the moment?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s this process even called? Exploration? Awareness? Attention? Focus? And when this process should be applied? In the beginning or half-way through the learning process?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don't know the answer to that, but it's something I am trying to figure out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how they always say that you get better with reputation? Do you think this is true all the time? What about if you keep repeating something wrong over and over and you get 10% improvement instead of 30%? This how all started. I was reading Great at Work the other day, and the following &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/2019\/04\/23\/when-you-dont-get-better-with-repetition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When You Don\u2019t Get Better with Repetition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,15],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-focus","tag-learning-how-to-learn","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}