How Commitment Can Make You 400% Better
In 1997, a bunch of 7 and 8 year old kids (157 of them to be exact) were starting to learn how to play a musical instrument. Before their first actual lesson, a researcher named Dr Gary Macpherson...
View ArticleDeliberate Practice & the 10,000 Hour Rule [link roundup]
I’m very interested in excellence and mastery. Part of this is personal – I don’t think I’m the master of anything – and part of it is intellectual – I just find it interesting to understand how the...
View ArticleRunning a Fast Mile
Can’t see the video? Click through to the post. I’ve never been a particularly fast runner and even after training for and completing a marathon, I’m still pretty slow. So my March Fitness Challenge is...
View ArticleFitChal #5: Increasing My Max Pull-Ups by 40%
(Click through to see the video) As another month closes out, I’ve got the results from my May Fitness Challenge, which was max pull-ups. At the beginning of May, I completed 20 pull-ups. As per usual,...
View ArticleThere’s Probably a Limit to How Fast You Can Do Squat Jumps
(Can’t see the video? Click through) The weather has been great in DC (despite my earlier complaints about the heat) and I enjoyed shooting the finale to my July Fitness Challenge of squat jumps. In...
View ArticleTraining Makes it Possible
(Reading via email? Click through to watch the videos) Have you ever looked at someone who was really good at what they did and felt a little daunted? Maybe it’s how they seem to easily make...
View ArticleHow Commitment Can Make You 400% Better
In 1997, a bunch of 7 and 8 year old kids (157 of them to be exact) were starting to learn how to play a musical instrument. Before their first actual lesson, a researcher named Dr Gary Macpherson...
View ArticleDeliberate Practice & the 10,000 Hour Rule [link roundup]
I’m very interested in excellence and mastery. Part of this is personal – I don’t think I’m the master of anything – and part of it is intellectual – I just find it interesting to understand how the...
View ArticleRunning a Fast Mile
Can’t see the video? Click through to the post. I’ve never been a particularly fast runner and even after training for and completing a marathon, I’m still pretty slow. So my March Fitness Challenge is...
View ArticleFitChal #5: Increasing My Max Pull-Ups by 40%
(Click through to see the video) As another month closes out, I’ve got the results from my May Fitness Challenge, which was max pull-ups. At the beginning of May, I completed 20 pull-ups. As per usual,...
View ArticleThere’s Probably a Limit to How Fast You Can Do Squat Jumps
(Can’t see the video? Click through) The weather has been great in DC (despite my earlier complaints about the heat) and I enjoyed shooting the finale to my July Fitness Challenge of squat jumps. In...
View ArticleTraining Makes it Possible
Have you ever looked at someone who was really good at what they did and felt a little daunted? Maybe it’s how they seem to easily make connections with new people, or design an amazing-looking web...
View ArticleBeyond the 10,000 Hour Rule
We’re all familiar with the 10,000 hour rule, which was made famous by Malcolm Gladwell in his 2010 bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success. In it, Gladwell makes the argument that 10,000 hours of...
View ArticleThe Science of Practice — My Illustrated Story in Hardbound
As long-time readers of this blog know, training and practice are things I’m very interested in. I’ve gone in depth on the topic in my guest post on Buffer: Why Practice Makes Perfect and my interview...
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