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In middle school, my orchestra teacher taught “Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice, makes perfect.” It’s a lot easier to perfect atomic-level techni

In middle school, my orchestra teacher taught “Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice, makes perfect.” It’s a lot easier to perfect atomic-level techniques than an entire composition. She also taught us not to “stop and start over” when we made mistakes. I think that is sort of like “don’t try to optimize early, get the code working then refactor later.”

samplatt 5y ago
>“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice, makes perfect.” That's word-for-word what my sensei says about karate.
- mitko 5y ago
  Four years ago my sensei invited another sensei for a seminar and the other sensei said nearly exactly the same thing, but I never heard my sensei say it. Is your sensei Fujishima?[1] [1] https://twitter.com/themitak/status/838896881866588161?s=20 https://twitter.com/themitak/status/838896881866588161?s=20
  - ipaddr 5y ago
    Is the world this small?
  - samplatt 5y ago
    Nope.
  - QuercusMax 5y ago
    It's an extremely common quote, often attributed to Vince Lombardi, the football coach. Nobody's sensei made it up.
SeriousM 5y ago
> She also taught us not to “stop and start over” when we made mistakes. This is so true. I learn piano myself and I'm a trackmania gamer for years. Learning a piano piece (some bars or full length for easy pieces) is quite the same as learning a track layout in trackmania. You have to go through the whole, regardless of the speed to see at least where it leads you. And if you just restart after the slightest error, you will perfect just the begin of the track yet you will struggle every time once you reach the unknown parts.
lask 5y ago
Another important reason to not start over is to make it a habit to continue playing even when you make a mistake. If you are performing and you make a mistake, then you don't want to just keep on playing.
thwave 5y ago
My piano teacher used to say "It's not a video-game, you don't go back to the beginning of the level every time you lose."

samplatt 5y ago

>“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice, makes perfect.” That's word-for-word what my sensei says about karate.

mitko 5y ago
Four years ago my sensei invited another sensei for a seminar and the other sensei said nearly exactly the same thing, but I never heard my sensei say it. Is your sensei Fujishima?[1] [1] https://twitter.com/themitak/status/838896881866588161?s=20 https://twitter.com/themitak/status/838896881866588161?s=20
- ipaddr 5y ago
  Is the world this small?
- samplatt 5y ago
  Nope.
- QuercusMax 5y ago
  It's an extremely common quote, often attributed to Vince Lombardi, the football coach. Nobody's sensei made it up.

SeriousM 5y ago

> She also taught us not to “stop and start over” when we made mistakes. This is so true. I learn piano myself and I'm a trackmania gamer for years. Learning a piano piece (some bars or full length for easy pieces) is quite the same as learning a track layout in trackmania. You have to go through the whole, regardless of the speed to see at least where it leads you. And if you just restart after the slightest error, you will perfect just the begin of the track yet you will struggle every time once you reach the unknown parts.

lask 5y ago

Another important reason to not start over is to make it a habit to continue playing even when you make a mistake. If you are performing and you make a mistake, then you don't want to just keep on playing.

thwave 5y ago

My piano teacher used to say "It's not a video-game, you don't go back to the beginning of the level every time you lose."