總結(jié)感悟
PLATEAUS: rapid improvement at start → the improvement stops →? most people think they have hit some sort of implacable limit → stop trying → settle down to life on that plateau.?
This is the major reason that?people in every area stop improving.?
Go beyond the plateau: challenge yourself in different ways.（focus on your training, figure out what stop you move forward exactly, make specific plan, practice）
作者接下來講到了我一直很在意的一個(gè)問題：如何堅(jiān)持大量練習(xí)。我也經(jīng)常懷疑自己的意志力（willpower），自制力不好是我給自己失敗找的最大理由。但是Ericsson告訴我們，重點(diǎn)不是你沒有足夠的willpower，而是motivation影響了你。
How to maintain motivation？
1、strengthen the reasons to keep going
Good planning，develop habits，minimize the influence of the things that distract you.
The SKILL?itself can become part of the motivation ( pleasure,pride,identity changes)
A BELIEF?that you can succeed.（家長多鼓勵(lì)孩子對(duì)孩子的成長絕對(duì)有幫助）
Social motivation→ approval and admiration of others；join group?
2、weaken the reasons to stop
maintain focus：general physical maintenance （enough sleep，keep healthy）
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?limit the length of practice sessions to about 1 hour.
set things up：infinite→ clear steps （concrete and encouraging），so you can see how far you have progressed.（聯(lián)想到玩游戲的段位）
There is no reason not to follow your dream.
word and expression
Runners and other athletes find that they become inured to the pain associated with their exercise.
Both your body and your mind will habituate to the practice.
inured
If you are inured to something unpleasant, you have become used to it so that it no longer affects you. (FORMAL)
>Doctors become inured to death.
habituate
verb.(chiefly Zoology)make or become accustomed or used to something
>she had habituated the chimps to humans.
※inure 和 habituate都有“使習(xí)慣于”的意思，但是inure適用于不愉快的（unpleasant）事情。
【詞根詞綴】
habit=dwell,表示”居住”
habit ? n 習(xí)慣(住一個(gè)地方=習(xí)慣了)
habituate ? v 使習(xí)慣于(habit習(xí)慣+uate)
habitual ? a 慣常的(habit+ual)
habitant ? n 居住者(habit+ant人=住的人)
habitat ? n (動(dòng)植物)居住地(habit+at表示地方=住的地方)
cohabi ?t v 同居(co 共同+habit=共同住一起)
inhabit ? v 居住(in里面+habit=住里面=居住)
inhabitant ? n 住戶,居民(inhabit+ant)
uninhabited ? ?a杳無人跡的(un無+inhabit居住+ed =無人居住的)
