TheATL
70 posts
Nov 08, 2013
2:45 PM
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I just ran across the following article and thought it had some great observations for how to get more out of your practice time.
Practice makes perfect: Why you should rethink the way you train
Among other take-aways for me in the article,
Despite repetition, most people fail to become experts at what they do, no matter how many years they spend doing it. Experience does not equate to expertise
Deliberate practice is characterized by several elements, each worth examining. It is activity designed specifically to improve performance, often with a teacher's help; it can be repeated a lot; feedback on results is continuously available; it's highly demanding mentally, whether the activity is purely intellectual, such as chess or business-related activities, or heavily physical, such as sports; and it isn't much fun.
and finally...
Expertise... requires going from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence to conscious competence and finally to unconscious competence.
Unconscious competence - what a great way to describe any of the truly great players I have been fortunate enough to hear over the years.
I think I am at the 'conscious incompetent' phase.
Hope you get something out of this.
Brad
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STME58
581 posts
Nov 08, 2013
3:23 PM
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Hello Brad,
Your link is broken. In trying to find the article you refereced I cam across this similar one;
Practice Makes Perfect revisited
Think I found your link here
Brad's Link
I enjoyed the article. If you liked it you would probably also like the book "Guitar Zero" by Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist who took a year off to learn guitar. He has similar insights on the talent vs. training issue.
I don't have the article I got this from but there is a phrase I think is more apt than practice makes perfect. The phrase is "Practice makes Permanent", if you practice something wrong you don't get better, you just ingrain the bad habit deeper.
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Frank
3220 posts
Nov 09, 2013
10:01 AM
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Thanks...A journey of a thousand steps begins with the mastering of one - but do not neglect mastering the other 999 or you will get to the your 1000 step none the wiser :)
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mattfolk327
17 posts
Nov 09, 2013
12:59 PM
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I'm a good harp player but when I play harp I just play like 10 minutes at a time. I sit down at the park and just play for a little, have a smoke, then put it away.
I think if you set aside like an hour and say okay I'm going to come up with 5 good harmonica riffs and master them in this hour you'll be surprised how much you crank out.
You can never play either without weeding through junk. Dig through the junk to find the gold.
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mattfolk327
25 posts
Nov 09, 2013
8:30 PM
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Hahaha thanks buddy. The harmonica kind of helps balance it out. I always think the day I quit smoking is the day I'm going to get run over by a bus! Knock on wood.
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Mirco
19 posts
Nov 10, 2013
5:54 PM
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Great share. Thanks. I found the article so interesting that I picked up the book, "Talent is Nothing." About 1/3 of the way through. It's good, but it's basically the same main points as the article with a lot more examples.
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