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move only a small percentage of the
time.”
To see Deliberate Practice in action,
we need look no further than the story
of Stephen Wozniak. The Homebrew
meeting was the catalyst that inspired
him to build that first PC, but the
knowledge base and work habits that
made it possible came from another
place entirely: Woz had deliberately
practiced engineering ever since he was
a little kid. (Ericsson says that it takes
approximately ten thousand hours of
Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise,
so it helps to start young.)
In iWoz, Wozniak describes his childhood
passion for electronics, and unintentionally
recounts all the elements of
Deliberate Practice that Ericsson emphasizes.
First, he was motivated: his
father, a Lockheed engineer, had taught
Woz that engineers could change
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