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Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

No. Practice isn’t doing the same thing over and over again.

Practice is an iterative process where each time you fail, you learn something new and add it to the process until eventually you find a result that is different.

You’re practicing your golf swing because you keep shanking the ball to the right. You don’t keep making the same shot over and over agin. You adjust your stance. You adjust your leg positioning. You adjust a hundred little things until you find the combination that gives you the results you want. THAT’S Practice…not just repeating the same action.

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howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
When I get a movement right, I keep repeating it over and over until it’s committed to memory. You’re saying I could’ve stopped at the first success? Why did no one tell me earlier?

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- petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  I keep repeating it over and over until it’s committed to memory.
  
  But do you expect different results when doing this? I think the point of that would be to get the same result every time.
  
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squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Same is not identical.

“I am going to get a drink.” - “I’m gonna do the same.”

Will the second person now do identical movements to the first one? Will the second person use identical words to order an identical drink?

Or will both of them walk up to the bar and each of them will get some drink they like?

“I’m going to practice golf this weekend.” - “Yeah, I’m going to do the same.”

Will the second person immitate every movement of the first one? Or are both of them just going to practice golf, one of them maybe on a golf course and the other one on a drive range?

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FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ehh, I get what you’re saying but…that’s iteration, improvement, development

Practice is rehearsing the same move over and over, the phrase “practice like you play” exists for that reason. It is by definition, repetition.

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dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Nah. Some forms of practice like shooting or bowling or anything where the goal is to do something 10 or 100 times and get a high score are absolutely about doing exactly the same thing over and over again as predictably as possible and the variance of result is the problem.

If you don’t like that example, how about chess puzzles?

Certainly between practice sessions you might wisely expose yourself to new ideas, but the idea is the same:

See a position, see the winning strategy / tactic / idea. If you’re a student of the woodpecker method, once you do that once, you do it again, exactly the same way, and hope to be faster at it.

These are forms of practice wherein you do the same thing, exactly the same way, and hope to get increasingly better results by honing a skill through repetition without changing anything. its not that you CANT change things sometimes or that you shouldn’t, but generally speaking the idea is consistency.

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