Practice Makes Perfect? True or False

Practice or Natural Talent? This question is one of those that will take a lot of thinking before concluding. What is the difference between an amateur and an expert performance? Can anyone become an expert with enough practice, or is it talent?.

This debate has caused many researchers to get their hands busy because it needed to be looked into. 

Due to their research, we finally got the popular notion "10,000 hours of practice makes perfection". This research also challenged the idea that anyone can become an expert with enough practice.  

Does Practice Matter?

How significant a role does practice play in the grand scheme of things? Millions of people practice daily to learn something new, but does that make any difference. Does one need to be born with a talent to acquire a skill? Well, practice does have an essential role in learning processes. But practice alone can only do so much.

When it comes to education and professions, practice does not meet the average requirements.

Relying on practice alone can cause a lot of setbacks because practice is only one piece of the bigger picture; there are so many other factors that come into line when acquiring a new skill.

They include your overall intelligence, how early you start learning the new skill, interest in learning, memory capability, and finally, inborn talent.

While the old saying is, "Practice makes Perfect.", there is still a lot of research showing that practice doesn't necessarily mean that an individual will succeed. Instead, some studies have shown that the right kind of practice pays off.

You are asking yourself what I meant by the right kind of practice; well, when I say that, I mean doing the activities you need to do to grow instead of wasting your time on the insignificant parts.

It would help if you did what benefits you because that matters when optimizing learning and increasing your skills.

I have figured out that actual hand practice is not the only necessity for learning in all my years of learning. When it comes down to it, "Mental Practice" actually plays a more significant role. 

Mental practice helps in rehearsing something over and over again until your mind gets used to it. For example, when you buy a game controller or laptop, you can't remember the inputs until you get used to them. Let me use a better example. 

A pianist mentally visualizes his piano and can play because they have rehearsed it so many times; they don't even need to look at the piano sometimes. This action is because of their mental practice, which may take months or even years.

Best Kind of Practice

I have said before that there is a right way to practice and now let me finally review that.

Research has proven that people who spend more time investigating how things work or the core of the skills they want to learn to get better at it because they better understand how they work.

Instead of wasting your time doing the unnecessary, investigate more profound into what you are learning. Let me use crypto as an example. 

Most people think all crypto is Bitcoin, and this is what leads to their downfall. They invest thinking that if Bitcoin is going up, all other cryptos are going up, but they forget to look deeper into crypto. Instead of investigating or learning how it works, they want instant gratification.

How to become better with practice

The practice may not be the only key to perfection, but there are some methods you could use for it to be effective. I hope they help you get better.

• Differ your practice periods before time to help you maintain interest and enjoyment in the activity.

• Have courage and don't be afraid to commit mistakes; the most experienced people will tell you optimal learning requires errors, which is true. Mistakes make us learn better, especially when we learn from our mistakes.

• Put more time, so you become familiar with the processes and tools required to perform the skill.

• Explore the skill you want to learn because exploration plays a significant part in learning a new skill.

Conclusion

Even if practice makes perfect, it is only a tiny piece because there are still a lot of other factors you need to utilize before perfecting a skill, but I am sure even someone with talent can be beaten by someone who has worked hard at learning a skill. 

Talent is only valid when you practice, and that is the truth; it will not be helpful if you don't work on your talent.

Mental rehearsal, hands-on practice, exploration, and others will be highly effective if you look to become perfect at something. 

Does practice make perfect? Well, it all depends on how you practice and what methods you use.

Please don't focus on the insignificant instead, dive deeper into how it works.

Thank you for reading; leave a comment, and I will see you in the next one! Bye