Practice

Perhaps it’s time to revise the mantra ‘practice makes perfect’, which has been revived in recent years by Malcolm Gladwell. In The Outliers: The Story of Success (2008), Gladwell argued that, in almost any given area, expertise could be guaranteed by 10,000 hours of practice. But what if we turn our conditioning upside down in line with the precepts of amateurship, and begin to practise with expressions of fearlessness, spontaneity, commitment and aliveness? This doesn’t mean that we forgo our scales and our repetitions. It simply entails that we practise without the anxiety of quantifying our results. This analogue moment is a communion with your lyrical self.

From <https://psyche.co/ideas/feel-free-to-stop-striving-learn-to-relish-being-an-amateur>