She misunderstood the stranger’s question, but the woman’s reply wouldn’t have helped the man much if his practicing wasn’t what it should be. For practice might just make a violinist, tennis player ...

What is the secret to mastering a skill? Does everyone have the ability to go from good to great? Are only some people cut out to become elite level performers? Researchers have been deconstructing ...

Barbara Oakley, an engineering professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., says the key to mathematics expertise is practice, not conceptual understanding as some common-core proponents would ...

Elite athletes and world-class musicians don’t achieve mastery by simply showing up to games or rehearsals. They reach the pinnacle of their fields through deliberate practice—a methodology that ...

The 10,000-hour rule popularized by Malcolm Gladwell roughly says if you practice one skill for 10,000 hours, you'll have a good chance at becoming an expert at it. As the Guardian reports, new ...

The ceaseless click-squeal, click-squeal of the OpScan machine could wear down a fragile spirit, but for Tanya Crump, the cadence heightens the sense of purpose. In a windowless cubbyhole on the ...

The Igbo apprenticeship system remains one of Africa’s most coherent indigenous models of professional formation, ...