"We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems"- Anonymous
Everything is hard until you have figured it how to do it. Some people will even say that all it requires is practice. The old saying is practice makes perfect.
I completely disagree. Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
In other words just practicing the wrong things perfectly still makes them wrong. You must make each practice session perfect.
In a past posts I discussed ideas from the book Mastery by George Leonard. This is a wonderful book but it lacks information about what it takes to make practice perfect. Thomas Sterner answers this question in his book. He details what he did to improve his golf game. He even describes how he improved as a piano tuner. He suggests that we must have a specific goal on which we will work on during each practice session. It should be a small manageable goal. We should not be focused solely on the ultimate end goal.
A wonderful book!
Today's question is:
"What is your goal for today's practice?"
Everything is hard until you have figured it how to do it. Some people will even say that all it requires is practice. The old saying is practice makes perfect.
I completely disagree. Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
In other words just practicing the wrong things perfectly still makes them wrong. You must make each practice session perfect.
In a past posts I discussed ideas from the book Mastery by George Leonard. This is a wonderful book but it lacks information about what it takes to make practice perfect. Thomas Sterner answers this question in his book. He details what he did to improve his golf game. He even describes how he improved as a piano tuner. He suggests that we must have a specific goal on which we will work on during each practice session. It should be a small manageable goal. We should not be focused solely on the ultimate end goal.
A wonderful book!
Today's question is:
"What is your goal for today's practice?"
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