SHRINK THE SPACE.
A good example is used by FC Barcelona, widely considered the world’s best soccer team. The method is simple: one room slightly bigger than a bathroom, two players, and one ball—whoever can keep the ball from the other player longest wins.
This little game isolates and compresses a vital skill—ball control—by creating a series of urgent, struggle-filled crises to which the players respond and thus improve.
This tip does not apply to just physical space.
Poets and writers shrink the field by using restrictive meters to force themselves into a small creative form—such as with haiku and micro-writing exercises.
Comedy writers use the 140-character arena of Twitter as a space to hone their skills.
Businesses can also benefit from compression: Toyota trains new employees by shrinking the assembly line into a single room filled with toy-sized replicas of its equipment. The company has found that this Mini-training is more effective than training on the actual production line.
Ask yourself: What’s the minimum space needed to Deepen your Skill.