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deliberate practice


  • Use research projects to build academic skills

    Design small research projects to build academic skills. We have a fairly good understanding of how to get better at music, or sport. But when it comes to improving academic performance, it can be difficult to describe exactly what this looks like. Based on our understanding of expert performance in other domains, any programme aimed…

  • Criteria for developing expert performance

    Practice in itself won’t help you to improve your academic performance. You need to satisfy four criteria to consistently improve. The most effective way to get better at anything is to practice what hurts the most. Barbara Oakley The Head space courses give you a framework to improve the parts of academia that hurt the…