Oh I love the word “practice”. And how easy it is to forget that there can be no mastery without relentless, consistent and bravehearted practice (especially on the days when you don’t feel like practicing). Success is no accident (big idea).
Learning new skills can be hard: it takes time and, above all, practice. Only through a gradual process of trial and error do we acquire the ability to walk, speak, or play the trumpet. This process, called motor skill learning, involves two structures within the brain: an ‘actor’, which adjusts the behaviour of the animal, and a ‘critic’, which monitors the effect of the adjustments and compares it with the desired outcome.
The interaction between these two regions results in a reinforcement of the adjustments made by the actor that the critic thinks will take the behaviour closer toward the desired outcome, until practice has indeed made perfect.
A central yet untested assumption in the current model of motor skill learning is that the gradual changes implemented by the actor are an important part of this learning, and that the critic monitors progress by feedback received from the movements that are generated as a result of these changes.
Do you wish to be best on a thing, the best approach is to practice that same thing as often as you can in a consistent manner putting all necessary efforts into it with a resolute mindset of getting it right.
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