On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:08:56 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> Well, if I were to go totally geek on it, practice is an effort to
>> reach a limit (mathematically) - so enough practice makes perfect, but
>> it's only as x approaches infinity that you actually get there.
>> 
>> So I guess that's pretty much what you said. ;-)
> 
> Well *actually*... practising DOING IT RIGHT makes perfect. If you end
> up practising it wrong (e.g., you practise your golf swing, but always
> get it wrong) it actually makes things worse.
> 
> Or so the scientists have concluded...

Well, yes, but the way to learn the right way to do it is to try 
different things.  Find what works for you and then practice that.

Jim

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