Fake Practice Hours

(Note: This is an AI-assisted teaser for my prior manual writing. If you like it and want to read more details about this topic/perspective, then check out my 100% manually-written blog and books!)

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You can watch a thousand hours of somebody playing an instrument, shooting a basketball, solving math problems… and not get any better yourself.

None of those are your practice hours.

Watching teaches you what good performance looks like, but it’s not the performance itself.

Doing it yourself is what teaches you to perform.

The hard part isn’t seeing what to do.

It’s actually doing it yourself.

Making the mistakes, correcting them.

Everything is obvious in broad strokes.

It’s the micro level where things get more tricky.

If somebody else is doing the work, they are getting the practice, not you.

Here's the 100% manually-written long-form that this teaser is distilled from, if you want to dive deeper: When Does the Learning Happen? .

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