Deliberate Practice

April 20, 2024
Here is my (Oscar) mini keynote from the KataCon10/TWI Summit 2024 where the theme was Deliberate Practice. Listen please as I retell the story of Qantas flight 32 which on November 4th 2010 took off from Singapore bound for Sydney with 470 people on board. At 7,400 ft there was a huge BOOM likened to an air-to-air missile hitting engine #2. Captain DeCrespigny landed the plane safely 2 hours later. DeCrespigny spoke of how his fast mind and slow mind were major factors in avoiding what would have been the world’s worst aviation disaster. How did he develop his critical fast mind actions that underpinned ‘fly the plane, stay alive’? The answer is through Deliberate Practice…