Drive: Move Five Steps Closer to Mastery

Daniel Pink's Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us also provides a list of five steps to get closer to mastery:

1. Remember that deliberate practice has one objective: to improve performance. "People who play tennis once a week for years don't get better if they do the same thing each time," Ericsson has said. "Deliberate practice is about changing your performance, setting new goals and straining yourself to reach a bit higher each time."
2. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Repetition matters. Basketball greats don't shoot ten free throws at the end of team practice; they shoot five hundred.
3. Seek constant, critical feedback. If you don't know how you're doing, you won't know what to improve.
4. Focus ruthlessly on where you need help. While many of us work on what we're already good at, says Ericsson, "those who get better work on their weaknesses."
5. Prepare for the process to be mentally and physically exhausting.  That's why so few people commit to it, but that's why it works.

Sounds a bit similar to Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers (click here to view my posts on Outliers).

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