Turning Practice Into A Lasting Routine
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Deliberate practice exercises are genuinely valuable precisely because they function well as temporary scaffolding, useful specifically for building a skill that should eventually operate entirely without conscious effort, gradually folded quietly into ordinary daily habits rather than remaining forever a separate, effortful task requiring constant, deliberate attention every single day.
Noticing quite carefully when a specific check starts happening entirely automatically and without effort, without ever deliberately reminding yourself to actually do it, is a genuine and meaningful marker of real progress well worth recognising and celebrating, a clear sign that the practice has actually done its intended job properly.
At that particular point, shifting your attention instead toward whichever checks still feel genuinely effortful keeps overall development moving steadily forward, rather than continuing indefinitely to practise skills that have already comfortably become reliable, well established habits that no longer require any further conscious work or deliberate effort at all.