When playing competitive games it can some times be hard when you lose a game.
But I think what's make it hard is the mindset we use when playing those games. If we play with the mindset of wanting to win every game it can be hard to take the loss because we get disappointed. But if we play with the mindset of wanting to learn or improve our skills at playing those games instead of seeing losing as something bad we can see it as a path to improvement. There is actually some research called Deliberate practice which states that growth only happens outside your comfort zone. So that means that playing at that level where you might lose is excatly where you need to play in order to improve your skills. The next time you lose. Instead of seeing it as a loss a different way to see it can be to see it as progress to get better. I have been using this way of thinking my self at a game called Hearthstone where before it was hard to lose a game but now I try to see it as a key to get better. "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." Micheal Jordan.
0 Comments
Step 1: Listen to the piece first for a reference.
This step is to help you get familiar with how the music should sound and what you should work towards to. It can be good to listen to a lot of different performance so you have a good reference. Step 2: Play the whole piece through. This step is to figure out what you can’t play. Once you figure out what you can’t play make a note about it for example in the sheet music. Step 3: Only focus on what you can’t play. This step is to save some time. If you keep spending time on what you already can, changes are you won't make much progress. While it is good to keep practice what you know so you won't forget it, spending time on what you can't performe should be a first priority and spending time on what you already know a second priority. Try to always practice at the edge of your abilities and focus on weakness. Step 4: Get feedback from a teacher or a practice partner. The fourth step is to find a teacher who can give you feedback on what you are doing wrong. If you don’t have a teacher you can find someone who can be your practice partner and who can give you feedback. This is probably something you should do a lot, usually just getting feedback one time isn’t enough. You will probably go between step 3 and step 4 a lot. Step 5: Memorize the piece. In this step what I have found useful is to use is something called retrieval practice. Try to see if you can recall the music without looking at the sheet music and only if you can’t recall it should you look back at the sheet music. Once you can memorize a part of the music move on to what you can't memorize. https://www.retrievalpractice.org/ Bounous tip: 1 When you are practicing do it with intense focus free of distractions. http://calnewport.com/blog/2014/04/08/work-accomplished-time-spent-x-intensity/ 2 Create specefic goals you want to achive each practice season. 3 Practice with your head. Aviod mindless practice: "If you practice with your head two hours is plenty". Leopold Auer I hope you find these tips useful. What process do you use to learn a new piece? Let me know in the comments if you want to. Something I have learned, is that when trying to achieve goals or learn new things is that in the past, I have tried to look for quick hacks that could make it easier to achieve them. While they can help you do it more effectively it can also sometimes be a way to avoid the real challenge. My tip would be to embrace the difficulty of the challenge instead of trying to make it easier.
Something I have been thinking about lately is what it means to accept 100% responsibility. By accepting 100% responsibility that also mean you have to accept responsibility for one's problems. This can be a difficult choice to make but the rewarding can be great as it give you more control over the problems. Instead of saying this is hopeless. Its not possible or its not my fault/responsibility. Taking responsibility for your problems also give you the ability to fix them so they no longer becomes problems. It means that you accept that you are the cause of the problems but also the solution.
Here is a related quote from the movie Rocky. “Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!” And as David goggins said “On the other side of suffering is greatness” Something I have learned when trying to do projects like learning music theory grade 1-8 and 30 day fiction writing is to not rely on when you feel like doing it or hope that motivation comes. It's easy in the beginning when you have a lot of motivation but it get harder later in the project when it feel like you don’t have any motivation left.
Motivation comes and goes so when you don’t have motivation it is a good ability to be able to get yourself to do it anyway. Take responsibility. It is also a great decision to decide to never quit. A related quote from David Goggins is: “Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you’re driven whatever is in front of you get destroyed.” For the next 30 days I will try to write a short story almost every day with the goal to improve my writing skills. My goal for the challenge is to do 30 days of deliberate practice(at least as much as possible) maybe just for 25 minuts a day maybe more.
Here is a short story as a warm up for the challenge: https://www.wattpad.com/693182730-fight-at-the-beach I will still continue with my music theory project at the same time. The short storys will be posted down below. If you want feel free to join me on the challenge. 1 10-02-2019 https://www.wattpad.com/693349347-she-is-gone https://www.wattpad.com/693182730-fight-at-the-beach Updated fight on the beach. 2 11-02-2019 https://www.wattpad.com/694084177-the-great-dragon-wip-the-great-dragon The great dragon (wip) 3 4 5 6 7 8 17-02-2019 https://www.wattpad.com/694084177-the-great-dragon-wip-the-great-dragon Updated The great dragon. I have also been watching some video tutorials. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 https://www.wattpad.com/702028778-the-blizzard-the-road 02-03-2019 22 https://www.wattpad.com/702526626-the-pizza-party 03-03-2019 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Sometimes when we want to play a game or even being in a competition in a creative field we quit to soon because we are afraid to lose.
The reason this is not so good is because that sometimes stop us from making progres in those fields all together. I think a good attitude to have is to not be afraid to lose that way you can still play in those field where you are up against someone. There are actually some benefits to losing. By losing you can get a better idea of how good you really are at what you are doing and that can help you figure out what you need to work on to get better. This is similar to the growth mindset that embraces challenges for example and the fixed mindset that aviod challenges. A good quote from the movie Rockey Balboa is: "It ain't about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward" Hey.
I have uploaded some new music that i have recently played on piano. I hope you enjoy it. you can check it out here: bjarketan.weebly.com/piano.html I think too many people only schedule their time to work but never does so with when they should be resting. The danger in that is that you can be burnout.
So the tip for today is to schedule both work and rest into your schedule. This might be a good chance to check out Cal Newport’s idea of a shutdown complete ritual. http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/06/08/drastically-reduce-stress-with-a-work-shutdown-ritual/ Here is an example of how a schedule could look that also focuses on rest. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=74rrM2Rfc7k Another good example is to be 100% on and 100% off that’s a good strategy to get a lot of things done while also getting the rest you need. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wl1hO0l5Am0 Introduction. In my previous blog post on the Mastery Mindset I talked about learning how to learn. In this post I will share my own research of what I have found. Mindsets:
Why Mindset Matters for Learning. The reason why mindset matter for learning is for example someone with a fixed mindset when facing an obstacle may give up too soon while someone with a growth mindset may continue anyway in the face of obstacles. I think that shows that having the right mindset can matter for how far you are going to go with learning. What if I procrastinate? According to Cal Newport the reason why we procrastinate is because we have a bad plan. Ask yourself: How am I going to study? For how long? How do I know it Will work? And it shouldn’t be a problem for procrastination. If you still find yourself procrastinating here are some other things you can do as well:
On Focusing: http://calnewport.com/blog/2014/04/08/work-accomplished-time-spent-x-intensity/ One of the best way to learn is to learn free of any distractions and do so with intense focus. Cal Newport have an equation that goes like this: Work Accomplished = Time Spent x Intensity It basically means that if you spend a lot of time with low intensity of focus it will take a long time to get little done while focusing with high intensity can get a lot of done in less time. Deep Work: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/dp/1455586692 in Cal Newport’s book Deep Work which is about rules for focused success in a distracted world he gives very good advice on how to improve your focus. One of the things he says is that focus is a skill that must be trained that means if you have trouble focussing no worries you just need to practice it. One of the things he also mention is something called attention residue. This basically means that when you switch from one task to another you will have a residue on your concentration and you will be concentrating on slightly lower level this is really bad if you want intense concentration. To avoid this you need to embrace boredom. A good tip on this is to use digital minimalism http://calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/. Learning Techniques. A study. In a study 3 learning techniques was shown to be the most effective https://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/assessing-the-evidence-for-the-one-thing-you-never-get-taught-in-school-how-to-learn
How to learn skills effectively: Deliberate practice.
Skill decomposition. Break the skill down to the smallest part possible and practice those this is a really effective way to get quick results. Only spend time practice the hard part. You don’t really make progress when practicing on the easy parts but if you practice on the hard parts that should be the most important to spend practicing on. Get a teacher that can give you feedback. Having a teacher that can give you feedback can be really useful to tell what you are doing wrong that you might not notice yourself. This can help speed up the learning process. How to learn a language effectively: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2016/11/29/learn-languages/ Check this link out. Really useful information related to learn a new language. Speak from day one Do everything in that language aka total immersion. Self Explanation Techniques. The Feynman technique.
Explain like I am five. Explain the concept out loud as if it were to a five year old. (Most effective without looking at you learning material) Other Techniques
Extra resources:
Do an Ultra Learning Project. Ultra Learning is a concept by Scott H. Young which is about learning hard things in less time. https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2016/11/08/ultralearning-different/ https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2016/07/28/ultralearn-diy-1/ Rapid learner. https://www.rapid-learner-course.com/waitinglist.html Rapid learner is a great course by Scott H Young that teach you how to learn more effectively Top performer. https://www.top-performer-course.com/waitinglist.html Top performer is a great course by Cal Newport and Scott H Young that teach you how to become a top performer in your field. Learning how to learn course. https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn This is a great course on learning how to learn by Barbara Oakley. Grit. https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duckworth/dp/1501111108 This is a great book on the power of passion and perseverance. Mindset. https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322 This is a great book that shows why mindset matters. Peak: Secrets from the new science of expertise. https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Secrets-New-Science-Expertise-ebook/dp/B011H56MKS This is a awesome book on Deliberate Practice which is one of the best way to learn a new skill. So Good They Can’t Ignore You. https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/1455509124 This is a really good book on what it means to get famous in your field and what you need to do to get there. Deep work. https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/dp/1455586692 This is all about how to get focused success in a distracted world and why it matters. How to become a straight A student. https://www.amazon.com/How-Become-Straight-Student-Unconventional/dp/0767922719 This is a really good book that give you techniques that straight a student use. |
Author
Archives
February 2019
Categories |