The Dan Plan and Deliberate Practice
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Last year, I wrote an article on the book Talent Is Overrated, and specifically how deliberate practice is required in order to be great at anything.
I recently read about a guy named Dan McLaughlin who bought into this philosophy, and has got a goal to obtain his PGA Tour Card in the next 5 years. He had never played golf before, and he quit his job to do this. Almost a year after he started practicing (1500 hours of practice), he still had not played 18 holes of golf. That is exactly what deliberate practice is – not playing the game, just practicing the components in isolation.
An inspiring story of just waking up one day and deciding you want to do something, and not letting anyone say “you can’t”.
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