The Best Minute: Consistency, good comparison, and bad practice

2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. Zain Kahn on the importance of consistency:

“McDonald’s doesn’t make the world’s best burgers. Starbucks doesn’t make the world’s best coffee. But you know exactly what to expect when you walk into one of their stores in any country around the world.

Consistency trumps quality when it comes to creating a great band.”

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II. Adam Grant on how criticism is easy and creating is hard:

“Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow. The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took two years to produce.

Anyone can tear down someone else’s work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own.”

2 IDEAS FROM ME

I. When trying something new or trying to improve a skill, comparison can actually be a good thing depending on what you are comparing yourself to.

Comparing yourself to those who are further along or have been doing it longer will often lead to discouragement.

Comparing yourself to where you were when you begin will often lead to encouragement.

It’s not about catching up to others, it’s about creating more distance from where you began.

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II. Practice doesn’t make perfect, practice makes permanent.

If you practice wrong, you will perform wrong. The challenge is not practicing. The challenge is creating the proper feedback loops to find out whether or not you are practicing correctly.

1 INTERESTING FACT

A brain freeze is really a sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (good luck pronouncing that). This pain occurs when cold hits the receptors in the outer covering of the brain, called the meninges, which are connected to the back of your throat. The cold creates a dilation and contraction of arteries, causing a rapid-onset headache.

Source: Science Daily