Learning How To Practice
12 min readAug 8, 2020
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Practicing is a skill. Learning to learn can really pay off. But it’s hard work, and rarely rewarded.
Background: I trained as a musician for the first thirty years of my life. Music is a fascinating field where there are many orders of magnitude of skill, and you can easily be tremendously better at it than someone else, and yet have many people who are tremendously better than you. (I’m in that middle area, a…