The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
It makes an interesting reading but I have problems with a few things.<p>I don&#x27;t think that &quot;to be good at something&quot;, through practice, it&#x27;s conceptually the same that understanding something new. The article doesn&#x27;t make a clear difference.<p>About flow state: it seems that the reason flow state is difficult to achieve is (and I believe Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explain it in its book) because the task have to be in the proper level of difficulty.<p>Too easy and it&#x27;s a boring task, too hard it&#x27;s a frustrating one.<p>When we are leaning something new, it&#x27;s very difficult to find a practice that it&#x27;s just at the  proper level. In fact, I would say that it&#x27;s one of the most important things a mentor can do for his&#x2F;her pupils: to find the perfect practice for the level of the trainee.