Practice doesn't make perfect. Rather, practice makes Permanent - locks it in. And perfect practice makes perfect.<p>Practicing the wrong way is like having a bad habit. The habit (practice) is bad but it locks in nonetheless.<p>Perfect Practice<p>To reach perfection, care has to be taking when practicing to encode things the right way. Good coaches accomplish this by:<p>1. Slowing down the action e.g. playing a piano or a violin at a painfully slow rate to make errors more noticeable<p>2. Chunking - breaking down the skill into smaller components and practicing these chunks separately. E.g. tearing music notes into pieces and practicing the notes separately<p>Books: Little Book of Talent, The Talent Code
If you can't get past nature's paywall, and want more detail... <a href="https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/01/overlearn" rel="nofollow">https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/01/overlearn</a><p>tldr:<p>Task: detect which one of the two successively presented images had a patterned orientation and which depicted just unstructured noise.<p>A first group practiced the task for eight blocks, waited 30 minutes, and then trained for eight blocks on a new similar task. The next day they were tested on both tasks to assess what they learned. The other group did the same thing, except that they overlearned the first task for 16 blocks of training.<p>On the next day’s tests, the first group performed quite poorly on the first task compared to the pre-test. Meanwhile the overlearning group showed strong performance on the first task, but no significant improvement on the second. Regular learning subjects were vulnerable to interference by the second task (as expected) but overlearners were not.
Curious how overlearning influences political beliefs, and if a subject is less likely to alter their belief system based on living in an "echo chamber" and constant re-enforcement of those beliefs.
So it sounds like they're saying that overlearning is what takes us from from "oh, huh, I was wrong" on encountering new evidence, to instead saying "no way, the evidence has to be wrong."
Sci-hub link for the paywalled paper : <a href="http://sci-hub.cc/10.1038/nn.4490" rel="nofollow">http://sci-hub.cc/10.1038/nn.4490</a>