{"id":31,"date":"2008-01-07T14:35:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T13:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neuropoolwp-com.beast-hosting.com\/2008\/01\/07\/ung-macht-den-meister\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T14:35:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T13:35:41","slug":"ung-macht-den-meister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/reports\/education-and-career-2\/ung-macht-den-meister.html","title":{"rendered":"The power of practising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/rede.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Practice makes perfect\" title=\"The importance of practising and how to practise properly. \" width=\"441\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/rede.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/rede-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Practice makes perfect - we've all heard that before, of course. But why is it so important to practise a lot in order to become perfect and what strength practising gives us is something that most people don't realise.<\/p>\n<p>All good actors are only who they are because they have practised incessantly.<\/p>\n<p>There are few people who master certain things straight away. As a rule, all those who have made it in one area are only where they are because they have practised over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>But how do you actually practise properly?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nMany people limit their practice to going through things in their heads, i.e. visualising in their minds what they want to do, along the lines of \"I'll just get started, the rest will come naturally\". This attitude can also be useful, but in practice everything always looks different. Doing something in reality is a completely different experience.<\/p>\n<p>Everything runs perfectly in her head. Nothing goes wrong, everything goes as planned. But when you practise \"for real\", a whole range of variables come into play that you didn't see coming. Then you are so surprised that you don't know how to deal with the changed situation. After all, you want to save face.<\/p>\n<p>The variables (the unknowns) destroy the perfect vision that has taken place in your head.<\/p>\n<p>Let's take the example of when you want to give a speech. Some people are content to let a \"tape\" play in their head. Since they don't expect anything to go wrong, they imagine that it will be the best speech of their life.<\/p>\n<p>Others practise their speech by whispering it to themselves. This is already a step further and at least helps to discover some variables.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are also some who go all out and practise their speech exactly as it should be delivered later. If you practise like this, you will find that you suddenly have unexpected slips of the tongue, stumble over the odd word, have no clear pronunciation, make strange gestures, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The catch, however, is that you can never know in advance what these unforeseen difficulties (the variables) will be. But you can at least discover some if you practise as realistically as possible. This may even mean travelling to the place where the speech will take place and actually standing on the podium. Practise as realistically as possible, because only then will the variables reveal themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The other advantage is that you will be less stressed on the day of the speech if you have already gone through everything as realistically as possible beforehand. If you have been in the same situation before, i.e. stood directly at the lectern and practised, you will be less nervous because this is no longer the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, you will also learn to adapt to the unforeseen so that it no longer upsets you in an emergency. The more you practise realistically, the more variables you will discover that you can eliminate. Some will still creep in, but far fewer. To visualise the whole thing, think of the practice process as a triangle with the point facing downwards: wide at the top, but tapering the further down you go. Practising is nothing other than an infinite process of refinement.<\/p>\n<p>Mastering a particular activity to perfection takes years of practice. In the beginning, there are an infinite number of variables, and as soon as you have mastered these, there are more, but fewer and fewer. Then you master these too, while mastering the previous variables has already become automatic. If this process is practised over and over again for years, THEN you start to get good.<\/p>\n<p>The more you respect and value the process of practising, i.e. really set about practising as realistically as possible, the more practising will respect you and show you what you need for further refinement. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00dcbung macht den Meister, das haben wir nat\u00fcrlich alle schon mal geh\u00f6rt. Doch warum ist es so wichtig, viel zu \u00fcben, um perfekt zu werden, und was das \u00dcben uns f\u00fcr eine St\u00e4rke gibt, dar\u00fcber sind sich die meisten Menschen nicht im Klaren. Alle guten Schauspieler sind nur wer sie sind, weil sie unentwegt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_id":["30"],"_fgj2wp_old_id":["14"],"rank_math_focus_keyword":["die macht des \u00dcbens","die macht des \u00dcbens"],"rank_math_analytic_object_id":["3464"],"_trp_automatically_translated_slug_en_GB":["ung-makes-the-master-2"],"rank_math_internal_links_processed":["1"]},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bildung-und-karriere","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}