> Acquiring skills usually means: practicing, practicing and practicing.
I really disagree with this much repeated simplistic prescription. This is sort of a pet peeve of mine and so let me elaborate. "Mindless" practice is worse then useless. You need full involvement of your mind asking the What/Why/How and building a mental framework as you practice else you cannot build on what you learn. As an example, note all the time wasted by students solving Maths problems using the "plug and chug" method. Another example is the vast army of Arduino programmers doing "copy & paste" programming. Both have their places but you cannot really grow with such an approach. The right way to Practice is what the researcher Anders Ericsson calls as "Deliberate Practice" in his book "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise".
One of my favourite quotes (from Chinese Martial Arts) that i periodically remind myself of goes;
"To show one the right direction and the right path, oral instructions from a master are necessary, but mastery of a subject comes only from one's own incessant self-cultivation".
There is a lot to unpack and learn from the above deceptively simple quote.
> Acquiring skills usually means: practicing, practicing and practicing.
I really disagree with this much repeated simplistic prescription. This is sort of a pet peeve of mine and so let me elaborate. "Mindless" practice is worse then useless. You need full involvement of your mind asking the What/Why/How and building a mental framework as you practice else you cannot build on what you learn. As an example, note all the time wasted by students solving Maths problems using the "plug and chug" method. Another example is the vast army of Arduino programmers doing "copy & paste" programming. Both have their places but you cannot really grow with such an approach. The right way to Practice is what the researcher Anders Ericsson calls as "Deliberate Practice" in his book "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise".
One of my favourite quotes (from Chinese Martial Arts) that i periodically remind myself of goes;
"To show one the right direction and the right path, oral instructions from a master are necessary, but mastery of a subject comes only from one's own incessant self-cultivation".
There is a lot to unpack and learn from the above deceptively simple quote.