When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.
Interpretation
Quality of practice is more important than the quantity of time spent practicing.
This quote emphasizes that the effectiveness and method of practice is crucial to mastering a skill, rather than merely the total hours dedicated to it. Focused, deliberate practice can lead to greater improvement and expertise than simply spending more time without a clear strategy or goal.
In practice
In a workshop about skill acquisition, this quote can inspire participants to focus on their practice methods.
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.
Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.
There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.
Donβt just create content to get credit for being clever β create content that will be helpful, insightful, or interesting for your target audience.
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
Education is a slow moving but powerful force
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.
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