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Sprouts makes educational videos about psychology, pedagogy and child development. The short animated videos are aimed to inspire and broaden your knowledge with these areas.

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Deliberate practice is a mindful and highly structured form of learning by doing. It’s a process of continuous experimentation to first achieve mastery and eventually full automaticity of a specific skill. A 2014 study published in Psychological Science argues that it can increase our performance by 26% in games, 21% in music and 18% in sports. Here are some tips on how to do it well.