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Effective Practicing

 

  • Effective practice is consistent, intensely focused, and targets content or weaknesses that lie at the edge of one's current abilities.
  • Focus on the task at hand. Minimize potential distractions by turning off the computer or TV and putting your cell phone on airplane mode.
  • Start out slowly or in slow-motion. Coordination is built with repetitions, whether correct or incorrect. If you gradually increase the speed of the quality repetitons, you have a better chance of doing them correctly. Next, frequent repetitions with allotted breaks are common practice habits of elite performers
  • practice in your brain in vivid detail. It's a bit surprising, but a number of studies suggest that once a physical motion has been established, it can be reinforced just by imagining it.


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