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I assumed practice meant deliberate practice. Why should it not? How can you say it wasn't?

I assumed it was not because they only talk about "time spent practicing" surveyed from 88 different papers, which may include "practice" and "deliberate practice", and further down they write:

> She hopes to investigate such factors as basic abilities, age when starting to learn the skill, confidence, positive or negative feedback, self-motivation and the ability to take risks.

This doesn't seem to cover the introspective / deliberate part of practice.

Though, I asked myself: if practice is not deliberate, is it "practice" at all? If not, what should we call it?

I think it is meat to be difference between putting headphones on and going to run for an hour versus having good training plan that is based on training best practices and focuses on your weaknesses.

Or a difference between just playing songs you like and between playing 30 seconds of some difficult song over and over not because you like it, but because you need to learn that kind of notes sequence to progress.

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