Unanticipated Growth

Practice doesn’t promise rewards on a strict schedule. Instead, consistent practice provides a terrain of stasis – a frustrating lack of growth – interspersed with unanticipated growth – seemingly sudden mastery of skills you’ve been struggling with. To master practice and stay focused during the times of stasis requires deep […]

3.14

I memorized pi to a couple of hundred digits in high school. I did it by repeatedly typing it into my calculator during math class, after I’d finished the assigned problems. An informational poster about pi, with a border comprising about 300 digits, was my source. There is no particular […]

Every Day

Small daily habits are better than big habits that happen less frequently. Dr. Steve Zegree always used the idea of “five minutes a day” as the benchmark for practicing a new skill. And it’s really true – a half mile run every day for a month is easy to repeat […]