Practice Like This!: 35 Effective Ways to Get Better Faster

By: Jonathan Harnum PhD

Narrated by: Jonathan Harnum

If you're alive, you're trying to get better at something. It could be your golf swing or guitar, parenting or painting, gaming, cooking, or any other skill.

The strategies in this book are top-shelf, pulled from neuroscience, research on excellence, and world-class masters in many fields, presented in an easy-to-understand style that is sometimes funny and always friendly.

Hundreds of helpful images and graphics.

Six sections, 42 hacks:

1-Talent Is Practice in Disguise: Learn the three kinds of practice, and how your brain is rewired when you learn new skills.

2-Motivation Is Like Bathing (A Daily Requirement): Your deepest, unspoken beliefs profoundly affect your motivation to improve, ya filthy animal.

3-You Are Unique (And So Is Everybody Else): Learn why your reaction to difficulty matters. And why teachers and coaches matter just as much.

4-Time: The Most Valuable Thing You Spend: Forget the 10,000-hour rule. Practice time isn’t what you’ve been led to believe, nor is it otherwise.

5-Where You At? Where you practice and who you’re with will affect how fast and how much you improve. What can you do about it?

6-Do it To it! Some of the most effective practice strategies and techniques: used by pros, tested by science!

©2015 Jonathan D Harnum (P)2016 Jonathan D Harnum

Good book (Edited review)

My original review seems to have disappeared and that's ok. I originally gave this book a negative (1 star) review because the hyperlinked pdf file with referenced source material was not available as promised. Since that review, the pdf is now where it was promised to be and all is good.

I preferred the author's other book: The Practice of Practice which is twice the length but more specific to the subject of music practice. Nevertheless this book is great and should be helpful for almost anyone wishing to improve at almost anything.

The book, perhaps because of its short length and the amount of material need to be covered, moves along at quite a fast pace. If you're trying to learn how to practice practicing well, slow down as the book says. Think or meditate about each of the 35 recommendations. There's gold in them there hills but you'll miss it if you rush by to quickly.

Practice like this 35 affective ways to get better faster

This book has great information in it. It really helped me to practice in a different light. It adds to your success while practicing. However audible makes it a little bit harder to see the pictures and diagrams that he describes in the book. He does give you a PDF file so you can look at them later.

Practice Like This

Clear, concise facts on how to practice for optimal retention. I have read a lot on the subject but this book gave new information and ideas. Appropriate for musicians, athletes, artists and businesspeople etc. The audiobook is easy to listen to but I had to keep stopping it to take notes. It comes with a free PDF so that will help to review the concepts covered.

Why 5? Because 6 Wasn't an Option

Jonathan Harnum is very skilled at explain in the simplest terms how the body learns and retains. I have read countless books on the subject. This is one of the most comprehensive and entertaining of the bunch. The book also offers a great deal of resources to the listener for further study. Well done.

Very informative and helpful, no fluff!

Short enough to go through a few times to really absorb, and well read by the author. Highly recommended!