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Repetition creates mastery is the saying, but that's only part of it. In truth, repetition only creates habit. To create mastery you also need to focus on techn
by redeux 4y ago
Repetition creates mastery is the saying, but that's only part of it. In truth, repetition only creates habit. To create mastery you also need to focus on technique, progressive difficulty, and have a source of high quality feedback.
- vidyesh 4y agoBut isn't the habit necessary in the first place on the path to mastery?
- xboxnolifes 4y agoYes, but only if your creating a habit of something good. I can rewrite the same passage every day and I'll be very good at writing that passage. I don't think that is working toward mastery of writing. My elementary music teacher would say: "practice makes permanent". If you practice bad habits, you get bad habits.
- vidyesh 4y agoI can rewrite the same passage every day and I'll be very good at writing that passage. I don't think that is working toward mastery of writing. Theres a quote Doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results is insanity, I was not referring to that. I was referring to the repetition of habit in this context of the post about writing, not about what you are writing.
- taopai 4y agoI guess you need a set of habits. The habit to practice daily, the habit to improve, the habit to find and accept feedback... But the main point of the article is "do it, and do it because you love it". That's the key. Forget about mastery and go with the flow. Experts can may make fun of you but if you do it because you love /doing it/ you don't care about comparisons.