Practise....Practise.... Practise

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This is the third blog post and I’m sure you’ve probably heard the saying “third time lucky”. At times we sometimes believe in blind luck, so when good things happen, we attribute this to being in the right place and at the right time.

Education is a journey of learning and we achieve new skills and knowledge by taking gradual steps towards a particular goal. A quote from Bruce Lee states: “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” Expanding our knowledge and understanding of theoretical concepts is useless if this information is not implemented practically. The learning process tends to focus more on the acquisition of information and the retention of important facts which can only be fully understood if it is used practically.

Mastery of any skill requires practice. An individual cannot learn how to drive without ever actually getting behind the wheel of the car to practise driving. Reading thousands of books on Art will not make you a professional painter. Education is a journey of discovery and a process of continuously taking action by implementing what we have learnt.

Having the discipline to study theory and then having the patience to practise repetitively allows us to learn. Many successful role models often describe how much time and effort they’ve invested in their chosen field of expertise. In Malcolm Gladwell’s book titled “Outliers”, he writes about the 10,000-hour rule whereby greatness can be achieved after dedicating around 10,000 hours or more towards mastering a particular skill, which creates a debate about whether talent is hereditary or learned.

When focusing on education, the more we read, study, revise, summarise, practise and evaluate......manifests a reality that those assessments we had initially dreaded are now viewed as being really simple to complete. So continue taking those incremental steps towards your goal!

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