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How to Study-Practice: The 80-20 Principle

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The 80-20 Principle is an observation that, in human endeavors, the majority of effects come from a minority of causes and vice versa…

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2010-05-09 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: Studying, Practicing, & Exercising

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Studying, Practicing, and Exercising are three very different behaviors with three very different goals…

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2010-05-03 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: Habits

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The reason you’re not making progress is NOT that you are untalented…

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2010-05-02 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: The Proper Mindset

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The quality of your music-making is absolutely determined by the quality of your study and practice habits…

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2010-05-01 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: Micro-Lessons

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Short and sweet mindsets for cultivating highly productive study-practice habits…

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2010-04-30 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: A Meditation on Gratitude

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I cannot think of a more honest and inspiring way to begin a study and practice session than with a meditation on gratitude…

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2010-04-28 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: Knowing a Piece of Music

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Preparation for performance is not about brute force “memorization” of unrelated dots on a page…

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2010-04-20 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: “Memorization”

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The primary reason that most of us “forget” something is that we never really learned that something in the first place…

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2010-04-11 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice

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The greatest gift a piano teacher can give you is to show you how to study and practice the right things the right way…

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2010-03-01 How to Study-Practice

Mindset & Attitude

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Let’s begin our musical journey by cultivating the proper mindset and attitude towards the notions of “talent”, mastery, and success…

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2010-03-01 Mindset & Attitude
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