Speedrunners practice one tricky jump hundreds of times. The fast run is made of a lot of slow ones.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
What looks effortless at full speed was taken apart and drilled in pieces. Whoever runs it fast has failed that one jump more times than most people have attempted it, and the run they show you is the thin layer on top. Fluency is boring work that happened out of sight.
Find the single hardest moment in whatever you are trying to do well and work only on that for a while. The bar before the chorus, the transition in the routine, the kind of problem that always costs you points. Repeat it until it stops being interesting. Then put it back into the whole thing and feel the difference.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which hard section are you avoiding by practicing easy parts?
MORE IN PATIENCE & TIMING
- At a red light, a calm foot on the brake beats revving at the car next to you. It’s not a race. It never was.
- Lots of adults say they wish they hadn’t quit piano. You almost never hear someone wish they’d quit sooner.
- New teammates need a few weeks before they play like themselves. Give people the runway you’d want.
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