WHY "PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT" IS THE BIGGEST SCAM IN HISTORY.
Practice doesn't make perfect; practice makes Permanent. How you are accidentally hard-wiring your mistakes into your destiny.
Have you ever met someone who has “10 years of experience,” but when you watch them work, they play like a beginner who just got lucky?
There’s a reason for that. Most people don’t have 10 years of experience; they have one year of experience repeated ten times. There is a massive difference between Doing and Practicing.
You can drive a car every day for 20 years, but that doesn’t make you a Formula 1 driver. Mastery requires a special kind of work called Deliberate Practice.
Psychologist Anders Ericsson spent his life studying the world’s best—from violinists to chess players. He found that the “Greats” don’t just “do” their craft; they break it into tiny, uncomfortable pieces.
Deliberate Practice isn’t about doing what you’re already good at. It’s about spending 90% of your time on the 10% of things you need to be great at. It requires:
Breaking it down: Not “I want to be a better writer,” but…
