Manual № 70 · Learning a skill and getting genuinely better

GettingGood

The manual for learning a skill and getting genuinely better.

Most practice does nothing. This is about the practice that does.

12 modules — for the person trying to get genuinely better, at any age

  1. 01What Practice Actually Does
  2. 02Sleep, Strain, and the Things That Undo Practice
  3. 03Deliberate Practice, Properly Stated
  4. 04The Practice That Feels Bad and Works
  5. 05Spacing, and Why Cramming Feels Like Learning
  6. 06Testing Yourself Is Not Measurement, It Is the Learning
  1. 07Mixing It Up
  2. 08Feedback: Timing, Amount, and What to Ask For
  3. 09Taking a Skill Apart When You Do Not Know Its Parts
  4. 10The Plateau, and Finding Someone Who Can See
  5. 11Months, Not Weeks
  6. 12The Day Itself, and the Plan You Keep

Two editions

Themanual,orthemanualand the toolkit.

Standard edition

$39

The full program: all 12 modules, with the exercises, logs, and checklists that save as you go. Everything you need to do the work.

Elite edition · most complete

$69

Everything in Standard, plus The Toolkit, 14 techniques drawn from across the evidence base, each labeled with where it comes from and how good the support for it actually is.. With original diagrams throughout.

Start with Standard if you would rather. You can upgrade to Elite at any time for the $30 difference, and nothing you have written is lost. And once you own one manual, every other one is 20% off.

Inside The Toolkit

  1. 01The Rep That Counts
  2. 02The Difficulty Dial
  3. 03The Spacing Ladder
  4. 04Blank Page First
  5. 05Shuffling the Deck
  6. 06Fluency, and How It Fools You
  7. 07Taking It Apart, Putting It Back
  1. 08Hunting Your Own Errors
  2. 09Waiting Before You Look
  3. 10Worked Examples, and Saying Why
  4. 11What To Ask a Coach For
  5. 12If This Happens, I Practice Anyway
  6. 13Rehearsing the Day
  7. 14Coming Back After a Break

Educational content — not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and not a substitute for a clinician when one is needed. Every manual opens with a safety page. If you are thinking about suicide, call or text 988 now.