PART 1: Thoughts
第二周最大的收获两点：心理表征和刻意练习的真正意义。这是第一次接触心理表征的说法，感觉看书就是在不断吸收养分、充电，更新自己的知识的过程。而从中体悟最深就是关于“一万小时定律”的讨论，让我突然意识到这些年自己走的“歪路”，我其实在扇贝背单词已经一千多天了。原来的工作一直都是与英语无关，但又不想放弃，在网上找了许多方法论后，最后决定用背单词这种方式，后来越来越觉得自己就像蜗牛一样在前进，连原版书都看不懂。今年开始决定看原版书，却也只是看看，参加本次读书群后才真正有些明白看书的原因和一些方法。庆幸的是自己没有选择放弃，人生永远没有太晚的开始。
PART 2: Summary
Firstly, the chapter 3 presents us with the concept of mental representations.The key benefit of mental representations lies in how they help us deal with information:understanding and interpreting it, holding it in memory, organizing it, analyzing it, and making decisions with it.And,the virtuous circle rules: honing the skill improves mental representation, and mental representation helps hone the skill.Furthermore,The main purpose of deliberate practice is to develop effective mental representations, and,mental representations in turn play a key role in deliberate practice.
Then, we see the 7 traits of deliberate practice in chapter 4:be designed and overseen by a teacher or coach,outside one’s comfort zone,well-defined,full attention and conscious actions,feedback and modification,effective mental representations, particular aspects of those skills and working to improve them specifically. More generally, learning from the best predecessors is the most important element to generate rapid improvements in the field.Furthermore,they will look at more than the answer to a problem and offer advice on how to think more effectively about the problem.
More importantly, the author reminds us ten thousands hours is only halfway down to the road of success. We also need to master training techniques and constantly find ways to get better.
PART 3: Words and Expression
1.… even facts that at first might not seem germane.
germane表示“有密切观点的”，我们可以用它来替换“be closely related”，这个词的用啊是be germane to。
2…with twenty-five wins, two losses, and nineteen draws.
draw作名词可以表示：打平局，相当于an even score，类似的表达还有tie。
3. The event that triggered Alekhine’s interest in blindfold chess was 1902 exhibition…
后面出现了类似的句子：...an interruption that rekindled his interest in blindfold chess.
我们学到了可以用trigger或者kindle来修饰interest。
4.… make possible their incredible ability to analyze chess positions and zero in on the best moves.
zero in on这个表达在全书共出现了7次之多,zero作动词表示“瞄准”，zero in on除了“瞄准”外，还可以表示“全神贯注于某事“，用这个表达来替换你每次都会用的"pay attention to"是不是不错？
5....so to have an apples-to-apples comparison, we looked at the accumulated amount of practice through age seventeen and the skill level at age eighteen.
apples-to-apples comparison, 从字面上看，拿苹果和苹果对比，不难理解为是“同类之间的对比”，be used to describe a comparison between two things that are similar in nature.
6.Other activities, like classical music performance, mathematics, and ballet, are blessed with highly developed, broadly accepted training methods.
be blessed with something, 表示“具有...的；赋有...的”，to have a special ability, good quality etc.
例句：The city is blessed with an excellent location.
7.原文：The improvement in performance generally has gone hand in hand with the development of teaching methods.
gone hand in hand with与...密切相关
8.It was clear to me that his method was similar to Steve’s in spirit but quite different — and much more carefully designed — in its details.
in spirit在这里的意思是“in nature”，即“本质”上。in spirit也可以表示“精神上”，例如In spirit I was with you here. 我在精神上支持你。
9. come down to; boil down to，都是表示“说到底就是…“可以一起记：
They identify the best practitioners — an easy task because it comes down to who can memorize the most digits…
In practice this oftenboils down topurposeful practice with a few extra steps.
10.Thus a good rule of thumb is to seek out people who work intimately with many other professionals
rule of thumb是由经验和常识得来的法则，尽管这条法则可能缺乏科学依据，但是一般情况下都行得通
11.… but you have only scratched the surface
scratch the surface就是“浅尝辄止"
12. Gladwell offered a catchy phrase: “the ten-thousand-hour rule.”
catchy phrase：朗朗上口的经典语句，流行语
13.keep this one thing at the front of your mind: subjective judgments are inherently vulnerable to all sorts of biases.
at the back of one's mind 在大脑中酝酿
superstars-in-waiting 明日之星
step on a cat’s tail and listen to the sounds that result
draw a clear distinction between A and B
recharge one’s battery with a full night’s sleep
virtuous circle 良性循环 → vicious circle 恶性循环
