Robert Duke: On the Value of Errors, and How Learning Really Works
The Bulletproof Musician
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Do You Have a Clear Target?
If you have only a vague idea about what you're trying to accomplish, it's not like you won't learn anything. And if you walk into a practice room and every time you're going to play, you don't have a pretty clear idea about what's supposed to happen, you're probably wasting your time. If I'm doing something repeatedly, and my brain perceives that what I'm doing is the same in every iteration, it's going to pay less and less attention because it doesn't have to. So if you want to optimize practice, even if you're a very great player, you should change things about what you do solely for the purpose of making your brain work harder
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