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Also the importance of regular evaluation. You can develop a lot of bad habits in 1500 hours.

• Jtsummers 8y ago
  As my band conductor drilled into us: > Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect. Of course "perfect practice" is an ideal, and you can't achieve it yourself without having someone or something assist to evaluate in most cases. But repeating the same mistakes for 1500 hours just makes you really good at making those mistakes.
  • munk-a 8y ago
    I don't think this is a good general saying, most activities that we're performing have discoverable local maxima we can achieve... or most people will achieve, by varying their technique to observe how much better/worse easier/harder the task becomes. That said something like an instrument that is very highly tied to developing memory muscle is definitely something you can learn _wrong_. Similarly any activity where actual execution of the task is expensive/infeasible (combat for instance) also benefits a lot more from instruction.