Does Practice Make Perfect? - Depends What You're Practicing
One of my devotions today talked about practice. It stated that practice does not make perfect if the practice is not purposeful and deliberate. If you're just putting in the hours, but not making the proper corrections and learning from your mistakes, then you'll never reach perfection.
The author used music as an example (thought of you Janie). She stated that according to Dr. K. Anders Ericsson, internationally recognized for his research in the psychology of performance, that it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to attain an expert level in any field.
So...this tells me that we can't just throw words on a website and expect sales. We have to be deliberate with our words. We have to follow the training to be instructed. We have to be open to suggestions and corrects. We have to grow through the hours we put in.
Some people have expectations based on their time here, or the number of posts they've created. Still others think they shouldn't...or just don't want to...have to put anything into it.
Instead we must understand that practice can bring perfection - or money - as long as we're doing more than putting in the hours (or words on the screen in our case).
Here's to purposeful and deliberate writing (practice) that leads to success (perfection) after we've put in the hours (learned).
Now, let's go get busy!
Karen
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Good Morning Karen,
Dr. K. Ericsson says you need 10.000 hours?
I started calculating, 5 hours a day 7 days a week. 4 weeks in a month and 12 months in a year..... dear me, I better keep on working. Just as well I have a lot of patience.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Now you just need to practice making how-to videos for makeup and Korean cleansing techniques. :D
Perfect practice makes perfect
I had a gymnastic coach who believed in this so strongly ...
but it made a huge impact and difference in my end performance..,
Tim
I bet the coach made you do it till you got it right! Practice is about correcting the errors, right?
Sometimes many long hours in the gym ... wouldn’t trade that experience for anything... taught me more than I knew at the time
Tim
Great read. We must be deliberate and committed to our writing success.
Have a blessed week
Charlotte
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I believe the text is titled "outlier". 10,000 hours is what it takes to stand above the crowd. I completely resonate with this idea. Eric Clapton is one of the examples. Imagine how many hours touring musician practices and preforms and how many hours it took to get the label, Clapton is God. It is incredible. I studied Picasso and he painted from dawn to dark and more for years. This idea is why I don't want instant success. Maybe I have already reached success without knowing it. At the same time, learning a new skill that uses a language of its own, takes time. Nothing magic about 10,000 hours. The idea is a continued and daily focus over the years.