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Andy Young Special user Jersey Shore, PA 813 Posts |
I wanted to talk about my practice patterns and just share what has worked for me. By the title you might have realized that my thoughts on practice isn't work for 10 min. a day, but instead make a goal for yourself. 10 minutes a day is a goal, but the goals I have used are always specific. Goals will help define if your practice was a success or failure, pass or fail. Without goals, which you make anyways, you will never know if you are progressing.
For instance when I started an overhand shuffle. My goal for one practice session would be just to keep my hand in the proper position (by the way I never learned to overhand shuffle until trying magic). The next session I made my goal of keeping my hands in position while taking blocks of cards smoothly. This was slow, but because I set my goal I didn't care if it was fast or slow only that it was smooth. As I progressed I made goals like pick up speed. Be able to shuffle for a length of time, which this was hard because my hand didn't want to bend the proper way to hold the cards. I make goals for all of my pracitce sessions. I have a larger goal, which in my example above, was to learn how to smoothly overhand shuffle cards for a period of time. The smaller goals that were set for my practice session were the building blocks to my larger goal. So for the beginners, make a large goal and then accomplish smaller goals that help you reach your larger one. One point I want to stress is that I wrote everything down. The amount of time I spent practicing, what my goal for that day was, if I met my goal, if I needed to redue a practice, if I failed then what went wrong, ect. This is a way to evaluate myself. I find that many people want to get to the good stuff before the practice, but the smaller steps will aid you in your larger goals. Also I tended to try just about every effect that was in front of me. Even if I didn't want to or I thought it wasn't for me. Every step has brought me to where I am and thought that perhaps this little post might help someone along there journey. Please post some of you feed back. Best wishes, Andy |
Robin4Kids Veteran user Lower Alabama 396 Posts |
Good advice! Proper goal setting is effective in most anything you do in life. It gives you measurable results and a plan that will allow you to accomplish more in a shorter period of time.
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Remagicon Regular user Somewhere over the Rainbow 124 Posts |
What would you say about setting a nearly impossible goal and striving hard to reach it? Even if it isn't necessarily practical?
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Robin4Kids Veteran user Lower Alabama 396 Posts |
There's a big difference in impossible and nearly impossible. If you go by the SMART goal criteria, it should be: Specific, Measurable, Attainable (not being impossible), Relevant, and Trackable. I don't believe a goal is attainable if you don't believe that it is possible for you to accomplish. If you believe it... you can achieve it!
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Andy Young Special user Jersey Shore, PA 813 Posts |
Setting an impossible goal sets you up for failure. If you always fail chances are that you will give up. Like changing your diet, small changes that change your diet over time work better then drastic changes that occur instantly. That is my experience with talking to people with diabetes.
You may feel differently, but setting yourself up for failure is just foolish. And let me say some goals I can't reach, likewise there may be things that I do that you can't. Failure is ok, but you can't make it as a starting point. Andy |
Adam Fraise New user 60 Posts |
A famous ice skater once said that she won more medals because she fell on her behind more often. In other words, you need to try things that are slightly too difficult for your current abilities if you want to improve.
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Andy Young Special user Jersey Shore, PA 813 Posts |
Good point and people should understand that anything you try for the first time (when completely new) will be to difficult for someone. I was just mentioning trying to reach an impossible goal. Which is not obtainable.
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BigWheel New user Earth near Washington DC 43 Posts |
Here is an interesting article along these lines:
http://lifehacker.com/learn-anything-in-......09281792 20 Hours of practice can create a huge amount of headway into learning something new and then (according the article) there are improvements; but, not at the same trajectory. |
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