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Levi Mitze-Circiumaru's avatar

I’m a violinist practicing to win an audition for a symphony orchestra. Four hours of practice a day seems reasonable. But apparently I need to warp the laws of physics to log 40 hrs/day if I wanna make the grade! 😫 This is terrible news...

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D0TheMath's avatar

log 40 is easy! Its only 1.6 hr/day! Far less than what you were doing previously.

*Apologies for the terrible joke*

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Levi Mitze-Circiumaru's avatar

šŸ˜‚ I used to be a math teacher--I like it

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Adhithya K R's avatar

šŸ˜‚ I chuckled

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anonprof's avatar

Bryan’s rule of thumb is also valuable for discovering one’s limitations. If you are doing all you can, and 10x simply isn’t possible, then one should probably conclude that goal isn’t achievable (I don’t mean to suggest that this is the case for you). Not everyone who wants to be a professional athlete, artist, musician, academic, etc has the ability to do so no matter how many quality hours they devote to their craft.

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Miguel's avatar

If Lingling can, you also can!

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Corwin Slack's avatar

Actually you need to be 10x more effective. You may be able to do that in half the time.

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Nick's avatar

Which is an emply platitude.

"Just be 10x more effective".

"Gee, thanks, how didn't I think of that?"

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Corwin Slack's avatar

Golly, I don’t know why you didn’t think of that. Chill!

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Levi Mitze-Circiumaru's avatar

Too true. I’ve been exploring a lot to find more effective practice methods. I feel like I’ve plateaued for over a year and really need a breakthrough. However, learning to be more effective also takes time. So, I think overall Bryan’s observations hold up. Maximizing time expended with no attention to quality is obviously ineffective, but even increasing efficacy takes time.

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Dirichlet-to-Neumann's avatar

Ling Ling practice 40 hours a day and he is disappointed in you.

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