How do you get to Carnegie Hall? According to the old joke, “practice, practice, practice.” While it may sound like good advice, it’s not the best or fastest path because practice can only get you so ...

The next time you putt 100 balls at the range, because you know the practice will improve your short game, know this: it probably won’t. Why? Because it’s not just practice that makes perfect. It’s ...

In this article, I examine what science tells us about effective practice and instruction. I explore whether the idiom ‘practice makes perfect’ stands up to scrutiny. This idiom has two fundamental ...

A persistent myth about practice is that practice makes perfect. This is true only if your actual practice is perfect, since only perfect practice makes perfect. Perfect Practice Source: Google Images ...

Rowland Haines was playing Fillmore Hyde in the amateur squash tennis championship at the Princeton Club. The Harvard stroke connoisseur put over a gem of a shot, nicking the wall just above the tin, ...

Founders gathered at the French start-up incubator La Station F, an example of a community of practice. When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969, he carried a flag from the Explorers Club in ...