Design deliberate practice drills for a skill I'm learning
Focused drills with clear success criteria, fast feedback, and a way to raise the difficulty as you improve.
The prompt
Design deliberate practice drills for a skill I'm learning.
Skill and the sub-skill I'm working on now: [e.g. "guitar - clean chord changes", "Spanish - past tense in conversation"]
My current level: [WHAT I CAN DO NOW, or my latest benchmark result]
Session length and frequency: [e.g. "30 minutes, 5 days a week"]
Feedback I can get: [e.g. "record myself", "a coach every two weeks", "online community", "answer keys"]
Tools or materials I have: [LIST]
Resources I'm using (optional): [PASTE FROM STEP 2]
Design principles to follow:
- Each drill targets one narrow sub-skill, just beyond what I can do comfortably.
- Every drill has a measurable success criterion (e.g. "8 out of 10 clean changes at 60 bpm").
- Feedback arrives fast, ideally within the session.
- Repetition with variation, so I don't just memorize one version.
- A clear rule for when to make it harder (e.g. after hitting the criterion in two sessions in a row).
- Avoid drills that feel productive but mostly repeat what I can already do.
Return:
1. 4-6 drills in a table: Drill | Sub-skill it targets | How to do it | Success criterion | How I get feedback | How to make it harder.
2. A sample week showing how to combine drills in my session length, including a short warm-up and a quick review of the previous session.
3. A practice log template: Date | Drill | Reps | Success rate | What went wrong | Next adjustment.
This is step 3 of the "Teach yourself a new skill in 90 days" pack. It works on its own, and can use the resources chosen in step 2.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- WHAT I CAN DO NOW, or my latest benchmark result
- e.g. "30 minutes, 5 days a week"
- LIST
- PASTE FROM STEP 2
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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