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Not All Practice Makes Perfect

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Re: Not All Practice Makes Perfect

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I thought it was way too verbose going over too many examples to make a simple point. "Okay, I get it, what used to be exceptional is now just "meh".. Get to the point".. It didn't address the actual matter, the one in the title, that not all practice makes perfect, until very far in the article. I then thought about an article that would have given much more information with fewer words, a seminal paper entitled "Th…

This was an excerpt from his book PEAK. It's verbose because he has written this for the layman.

Re: Not All Practice Makes Perfect

#62
post #2

I thought it was way too verbose going over too many examples to make a simple point. "Okay, I get it, what used to be exceptional is now just "meh".. Get to the point".. It didn't address the actual matter, the one in the title, that not all practice makes perfect, until very far in the article. I then thought about an article that would have given much more information with fewer words, a seminal paper entitled "Th…

This was an excerpt from his book PEAK. It's verbose because he has written this for the layman.

I wasn't aware of that book, thanks for the title! Sorry for the late reply.
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