Practice makes perfect

My music teacher talks too much!! J I don’t think it’s their intent as teachers to talk so much. But I sit passively listening to him, but yet times he says some good. Phew!!

Most of the things he says is Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice and Practice...Yeah practice makes perfect he says. I'm repeatedly told that the more you practice, the better you get at something...which is very true… It sounds simple, even obvious, but it’s something most of us avoid or maybe I avoid!!

He says practice is the best way by which one can achieve perfection. The last day he went further and said, if you’re not practicing deliberately (the important thing is not just practice but deliberate practice, he saysJ) — whether it’s a foreign language, a musical instrument, a vocal music or any other new skill — you should not take them up at all. I was astonished. But yeah he is one hundred percent true.

He makes it clear that a dutiful daily commitment to practice is not enough. Long hours of practice are not enough. And noodling (to improvise music on my instrument) around on the Violin or idly taking some swings with your singing is definitely not enough. “Deliberate practice,” The teacher declares sternly, “requires effort and is not inherently enjoyable.”

Seems a big lecture, Isn’t it? Even I felt the same when he was saying; he didn’t pause for an hour and continued saying me these things yesterday!! But when I went home and hark back, every word of him sounded like a manthra and may be that made me to write this post.