Practice Habits: Small Doses, Repeated Often

A short and sweet lesson on why doing a little bit every day beats doing a lotta bit once a week…

To be more specific, five minutes every day beats one hour once a week for at least two huge reasons:

First, cramming is inefficient. Because your brain, like a sponge, can absorb only so much so fast before it becomes saturated and needs to rest. (ref: How Your Brain Works: Soak Time).

And second, every time you go to sleep your brain does something amazing. It automatically stores what you studied and practiced that day in your long-term memory. And so, if you study and practice every day, you take full advantage of every sleep to make your musical mind grow! (ref: How Your Brain Works: Consolidation).

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Gentle Reminder: The quality of your performance is absolutely determined by the quality of your study and practice habits. In other words, the gift is not talent. The gift is love. If you love what your are doing, the discipline will follow!

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