My concern is while perseverance and effort is important, we’ve completely skewed the weighting of it.
We’ve pushed the mindset to 10,000 hours and have set out measures up to emphasize and reward, Pyrrhic levels of effort.
[quote]But a new Princeton study tears that theory down. In a meta-analysis of 88 studies on deliberate practice, the researchers found that practice accounted for just a 12% difference in performance in various domains.
What’s really surprising is how much it depends on the domain:
• In games, practice made for a 26% difference
• In music, it was a 21% difference
• In sports, an 18% difference
• In education, a 4% difference
• In professions, just a 1% difference[/quote]
I think that’s why we see so much angst around common core in high achieving schools. All that practice is geared towards mastery at performing at the prior school model. It’s the wrong model, IMHO. The education should have our kids able to roll with those changes.
