Does Practice Make Perfect?
DOES PRACTICE MAKE PERFECT? Practice makes perfect-weve all heard the cliché, and on the face of it, it seems to make perfect sense. If I practice juggling, Ill be the perfect juggler. If I practice guitar, Ill play guitar perfectly. If I practice driving, Ill drive to perfection. But just because every teacher who has ever walked the earth has passed it on to their students, does that make it true? If, as a 17-year-old with a new license I dream of becoming a Formula One champion, should I practice by entering the Grand Prix over and over again until I win? Should I spend 10 years practicing by doing laps of the Coles carpark (obeying the 5kmp/h speed limit of course) before my Formula One debut? Should I learn to drive guitar lessons , enter local racing derbies, gain some racing experience, try to lure a sponsor, etc? all of these are practice in one form or another, so why is it that with only one of these plans of attack there is even the possibility of success (and Ill give you a hint-it doesnt involve Coles carparks)? The answer is, the cliché is wrong: practice doesnt make perfect, PERFECT practice makes perfect! Before we look at what perfect practice is, lets look at why the Coles carpark strategy and the almost-certain-death-by-Formula-One strategy are unlikely to take me to glory. Firstly, if I spend all my practice time driving around the same carpark at 5kmp/h, Im never going to get the skills I need to do anything except become a trolley boy.
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