Confidence Hack #62: Sometimes, all you need is to head to the beach and take a wiffle ball break.

‘Practice, you talking about practice,’ Allen Iverson famously quoted when questioned if he was focused in practice. Practice versus play. What if I were to tell you that you need both to become great? Deliberate practice and deliberate play.

Deliberate practice is “practicing with a clear awareness of the specific components of a skill you aim to improve and exactly how to improve them.”

Deliberate play, on the other hand, is the exact opposite. Deliberate play releases the intense focus on one detail and spreads the umbrella to cover a new framework.

Just ask NBA Superstar Luka Donic. Realizing that his Dallas Mavericks teammates needed a break from the arduous West Coast road trip they were on, Luka called for the team to cancel practice and head to the beaches of Santa Monica to play wiffle ball. And it worked! The Mavericks beat the Los Angeles Lakers on their home floor the following night.

The confidence boost is gained today by embracing a rhythm of deliberate practice and deliberate play. You can’t fully maximize one without the other.

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