MightBeAlpharius@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Idk about that…
When you practice something, you’re actively changing your technique to elicit better results. You’re not making huge changes, but rather a series of miniscule ones that add up.
For instance, I could sit down with a flute and a piece of music, and play it decently. It wouldn’t be great, but it wouldn’t be terrible. If I play it the same way every time, it’s always going to sound decent - but it’s always going to have the same wrong notes, the same rushed passages, the same intonation issues… If I practice it, I can make changes over time that fix those things. I can fix my fingerings, even out the rushed bits, adjust my intonation… But then I wouldn’t be doing the same thing anymore, I’d be doing something slightly different.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You are doing the same thing (playing the same piece of music on the same flute). You aren’t doing an identical thing.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 day ago
You don’t think the context of the quote is implying doing the same exact thing repeatedly?
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, it says “the same thing”, not “the identical action” or even “the same thing exactly the same way”.
If you are practising something, are you not doing the same thing (“practising X”) no matter whether you are good or bad at it?
Do you call it differently, depending on your skill level?
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I feel like you’re purposefully arguing in bad faith. Are you legitimately trying to convince me that “the same thing” means “not really the same thing”? Regardless of how you meant to ask the question I believe most people, in this thread at least, have a very different sense of what the original quote meant. Your responses throughout the thread feels like trolling.
0ops@piefed.zip 1 day ago
“practicing” is spelled with a ‘c’