By: Fabio Ibraham, Kevin Wittigand Philipp Yorck Herzberg from the Dept of Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment, Helmut-Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany
Perfect practice...what is it and why do you care?
I care, because by actively engaging in perfect practice, I am training my brain and body to perform the skill...perfectly. Because under stress we will revert to habits.
What do I mean by that??
If our practice is just going through motions time after time after time...those motions that will become habit have may flaws. This will be exacerbated under stress. Let me use an example that most of us can relate too.
#1 an instrument. Did any of you play an instrument currently or in the past? There were probably things you could play fairly well...until you had to do it in front of an audience. The audience is the stress. If your practice was mediocre, you’re playing in front of an audience would be mediocre at best and more likely a train wreck!
#2 how about a sport? When…
