As we all know that repetitive practice is essential to master and improve our technique.
However, it is easy to feel bored and boring to practice a knowledge point and a performance technique repeatedly. Sometimes you may give up before you get to the practice.
Wan and Luo found that when doing repetitive exercises, if you treat all of them with a "learn by use" mentality, you will practice more easily.
What is the "learn by doing" mentality? In my own words, that is, when practicing a certain knowledge point, skill or work, I must first think about how I can "use" these contents, and "use" them in the work is more appropriate.
With the purpose of "using" and the effect of "using" as the result of the exercise, we will "focus" on the goal of repeating the practice and clarify the meaning of repeating.
This is a kind of "practice" mentality, which is to directly "use" what you have learned and practiced more quickly and appropriately in practice.
So, how do we make good use of the "learn by using" mentality? Wan and Luo believe that there is only one thing to consider in practice, and that is:
How far is the "distance" from the knowledge points or skills I have practiced now that I can smoothly use them and smoothly become my own performance skills?
Therefore, the following repetition is to continuously shorten this "distance".
In this way, he turned his piano practice into an "obstacle race" with a starting point and an end at the same time. Although the process is difficult and there will be various difficulties and "bottlenecks", the "starting point" is clear and the "end point" is also clear.
Then in the boring repetitive exercises, there is hope.
Otherwise, even if you do a lot of repetition, it is easy to get bored and tired of practicing, because you have never thought about how to "use" and where to use it.