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The hallmark of purposeful or deliberate practice is that you try to do something you cannot do -- that takes you out of your comfort zone -- and that you practice it over and over again, focusing on exactly how you are doing it, where you are falling short, and how you can get better. Real life -- our jobs, our schooling, our hobbies -- seldom gives us the opportunity for this sort of focused repetition, so in order to improve, we must manufacture our own opportunities.