Growing up we’ve all heard the expression “practice makes perfect” every time we inevitably screwed something up. It didn’t matter if it was baseball, music, math or reading…whatever subject, sport or activity you happened to suck at during that stage of your life, it was our parents obligation as life-givers to pat us on the head and enthusiastically mutter “practice makes perfect!”

But is that really true? Does practice really make perfect? What happens if you practice something over and over again but you practice it wrong? Still perfect? I don’t think so. Now you are stuck having to unlearn something which is actually harder than learning it right in the first place. Case in point, I am a 39 year old adult male and STILL can’t spell the word definitely (thank you again spell check!) I’m sorry, but I’m calling your 3rd grade music teacher to the carpet on this whole “practice makes perfect” conspiracy. [Read more...]