Deliberate Practice
Practice can be defined as the repeated exercise of an activity or skill to acquire or maintain proficiency in it. The purpose of practice is to improve your skills. More scientifically, athletic practice adds myelin to your neurons, which helps you execute your motor skills with more precision and consistency and with less effort. So if practice improves skills, is there a certain way to practice that maximizes improvement? Yes. It’s called deliberate practice. You can’t just mindlessly practice however you want to and expect great results. Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. The closest thing to “perfect practice” is called deliberate practice. The best athletes are very skilled because they have mastered deliberate practice.