Today, everyone is an expert on everything it seems. Don't know how to play guitar but want to? Pick up a copy of rocksmith and learn in a month. Want to learn to be a chef? Get on the cooking channel on your own kitchen TV and get chopping. But is it the same to learn by having someone tell you than to go through all the ups and downs yourself? I sure don't think so. Take the Beatles for example, by the time they started performing their own songs, they had more than 5 years experience playing with each other doing covers of popular songs. Not only that, but they'd been in a band since the age 16 for some members like Ringo Starr and John Lennon. A true American belief is that of practice makes perfect, not just an American belief, but indeed American. According to Warren Buffet, "knowing isn't enough." There's a short clip of a longer interview with Warren here, with the link to the full video in the description. What he gets at is that you may know a lot about your field in life, but until you've experienced, seen it, or interacted with others about it, you won't really know all there is to know. And not just that, but you have to be passionate about what you're doing. Warren says in this clip that if you could pick 10% of the future earnings of someone you know just by guessing where they'd end up now, he would choose the person most passionate about what they do. Because when you're passionate you practice, and as they say practice makes perfect. Today it seems a lot of people get the impression they're experts because they've "figured out" all the angles or something, or maybe because they read a book or two. Practice still makes perfect, google it. Even this article that states practice doesn't make perfect admits practice does have to do with becoming an expert on your field. So don't think cause you read it on reddit (see what I did there?) that all the sudden you know more than the field op. As Indiana Jones says, the key to being a good archeologist is you got to get out of the library.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Practice Still Makes Perfect
Today, everyone is an expert on everything it seems. Don't know how to play guitar but want to? Pick up a copy of rocksmith and learn in a month. Want to learn to be a chef? Get on the cooking channel on your own kitchen TV and get chopping. But is it the same to learn by having someone tell you than to go through all the ups and downs yourself? I sure don't think so. Take the Beatles for example, by the time they started performing their own songs, they had more than 5 years experience playing with each other doing covers of popular songs. Not only that, but they'd been in a band since the age 16 for some members like Ringo Starr and John Lennon. A true American belief is that of practice makes perfect, not just an American belief, but indeed American. According to Warren Buffet, "knowing isn't enough." There's a short clip of a longer interview with Warren here, with the link to the full video in the description. What he gets at is that you may know a lot about your field in life, but until you've experienced, seen it, or interacted with others about it, you won't really know all there is to know. And not just that, but you have to be passionate about what you're doing. Warren says in this clip that if you could pick 10% of the future earnings of someone you know just by guessing where they'd end up now, he would choose the person most passionate about what they do. Because when you're passionate you practice, and as they say practice makes perfect. Today it seems a lot of people get the impression they're experts because they've "figured out" all the angles or something, or maybe because they read a book or two. Practice still makes perfect, google it. Even this article that states practice doesn't make perfect admits practice does have to do with becoming an expert on your field. So don't think cause you read it on reddit (see what I did there?) that all the sudden you know more than the field op. As Indiana Jones says, the key to being a good archeologist is you got to get out of the library.
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