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The Downside of Creating Good Habits

ABITS CREATE THE FOUNDATION FOR MASTERY. In chess, it is only after

the basic movements of the pieces have become automatic that a

player can focus on the next level of the game. Each chunk of

information that is memorized opens up the mental space for more

effortful thinking. This is true for any endeavor. When you know the

simple movements so well that you can perform them without

thinking, you are free to pay attention to more advanced details. In this

way, habits are the backbone of any pursuit of excellence.

However, the benefits of habits come at a cost. At first, each

repetition develops fluency, speed, and skill. But then, as a habit

becomes automatic, you become less sensitive to feedback. You fall

into mindless repetition. It becomes easier to let mistakes slide. When

you can do it “good enough” on autopilot, you stop thinking about how

to do it better.

The upside of habits is that we can do things without thinking. The

downside of habits is that you get used to doing things a certain way

and stop paying attention to little errors. You assume you’re getting

better because you’re gaining experience. In reality, you are merely

reinforcing your current habits—not improving them. In fact, some

research has shown that once a skill has been mastered there is usually

a slight decline in performance over time.

Usually, this minor dip in performance is no cause for worry. You

don’t need a system to continuously improve how well you brush your

teeth or tie your shoes or make your morning cup of tea. With habits

like these, good enough is usually good enough. The less energy you

spend on trivial choices, the more you can spend it on what really

matters.

However, when you want to maximize your potential and achieve

elite levels of performance, you need a more nuanced approach. You

can’t repeat the same things blindly and expect to become exceptional.

Habits are necessary, but not sufficient for mastery. What you need is a

combination of automatic habits and deliberate practice.

Habits + Deliberate Practice = Mastery

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✅ downside : نقطه ضعف

✅ foundation : اساس

✅ mastery : تسلط

✅ movement : حرکت

✅ pieces : مهره ها

✅ chunk: تکه

✅ open up : باز کردن

✅ mental space : فضای ذهنی

✅ effortful: هدفمند

✅ endeavor : تلاش

✅ perform: اجرا کردن

✅ pay attention : توجه کردن

✅ advanced : پیشرفته

✅ details : جزییات

✅ backbone : رکن اصلی، ستون فقرات

✅ pursuit : طلب

✅ excellence: عالی بودن

✅ benefits : مزایا

✅ repetition : تکرار

✅ Develop : ایجاد کردن

✅ fluency : تسلط، روان بودن

✅ less sensitive : کمتر حساس

✅ feedback : بازخورد

✅ mindless : بی فکر

✅ to let mistakes slide : نادیده گرفتن اشتباهات

✅ autopilot : خودکار

✅ upside : نقطه قوت

✅ error : اشتباه

✅ assume : فکر کردن

✅ merely : صرفا

✅ reinforce : مستحکم کردن

✅ current : فعلی

✅ in fact: در واقع

✅ slight: جزئی

✅ decline : کاهش

✅ minor dip: کاهش جزئی

✅ worry: نگران بودن

✅ continuously : مدام

✅ brush : مسواک زدن

✅ trivial : کم اهمیت

✅ potential: پتانسیل

✅ elite : عالی

✅ nuanced: ظریف و ریزبینانه

✅ approach : رویکرد

✅ blindly : کورکورانه

✅ exceptional: خارق العاده

✅ sufficient : کافی

✅ combination : ترکیب

✅ deliberate: سنجیده

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