Top Performers Strategies: 3 – Strengthening Weak Skills

by Nuno Marinho | Jun 19, 2016 | Performance

Strengthening weak skills is the 3rd strategy top performers use to stay ahead in their game. You may realize a décalage between the amount of attention you give to different working areas or skills. You may realize you concentrate more energy working on stronger...

Top Performers Strategies: 2 – Maintenance and Improvement

by Nuno Marinho | Jun 12, 2016 | Performance

Michael Jordan is probably the greatest sports performer of all time. Opponents often categorize him as “impossible to stop”. How can you stop MJ? You can’t! Well… there is a way: Don’t let him practice 🙂 Practice leads to skills maintenance and improvement. If...

Top Performers Strategies: 1 – Handling Mistakes

by Nuno Marinho | Jun 5, 2016 | Performance

  After studying Top Performers at practice one can observe 5 different strategies used: 1 – Ability to handle mistakes; 2 – Maintenance and improvement; 3 – Focus on weaker areas of expertise; 4 – Mental resilience; 5 – Confidence strengthening. Let’s go through them...

3 – Varied Practice

by Nuno Marinho | May 29, 2016 | Performance

Try multiple variations of the same exercise, weather in time, speed, rhythm, posture, fingering or anything it comes to mind. Real time performance implies unexpected stuff to happen. The perfect conditions to perform are only available in our heads so we should be...

2 – Random Practice

by Nuno Marinho | May 22, 2016 | Performance

Re-order your topics and subjects in an interleaved fashion. This way you’ll prevent yourself from boredom and continuously trigger your brain to new things. In the long run switching randomly through subjects will improve your ability to acquire and retain the...