AI and Deliberate Practice

While I know that the 10,000 hour idea has been debunked, you can turn wherever you want and still see the importance of deliberate practice. You will learn about the importance of diving deep, of immersion, of intentional progression through a subject matter, of feedback loops for your learning progress.

As we see the acceleration of content creation and consumption with AI, this is an aspect I find overlooked. Many have see the comments that if AI replaces juniors, how will anybody ever grow to senior levels of experience. But taking this even further, the idea of "getting the gist of it", reading generated summaries only, has an equal effect regardless of current level of seniority.

You know the adage of the executive, who people say is too far removed from the front lines? If we only ever consume summaries and auto-generated reports, research synthesis via AI, and similar shortcuts, we fall into a similar trap. The capability to truly immerse oneself, to dive deep, is one we should not unnecessarily let atrophy.

That does not preclude you from using AI. But be deliberate about what should be automated or delegated. Can you implement assisted feedback loops? Can you obtain pointers about additional directions of exploration? Don't outsource the thinking itself.