[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;47323233]Whoever has played games like Dota, World of Tanks or War Thunder knows that well.
Some people accumulate ridiculous amounts of playtime yet they can still objectively be massive irredeemable shitters.[/QUOTE]
I was pretty sad when I realised that I couldn't get any better at Osu! unless I was willing to play several hours a day, every day of the week.
Does this explain why I'm shit at everything my University tries to teach me, except for the things that I like to do on a regular basis?
I learned this a long time ago from the Deviantart appreciation station. Go in there and you'll see a LOT of people who just practice wrong.
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;47325363]I feel like this is like the 5th study making this conclusion this year being posted in SH, do these researchers not talk to each other or something?[/QUOTE]
more studies is better studies, i guess
sometimes (particularly in terms of meta-analyses), the quantity of studies supporting a conclusion is used as a way to gauge truth when the research is mixed.
This is true coming from a proud Silver 4 with six years of counter-strike under my belt.
[QUOTE=Gwoodman;47323009]this means none of you will ever be good at sex no matter what[/QUOTE]
You won't know unless you have 10000 hours of sex
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;47323233]Whoever has played games like Dota, World of Tanks or War Thunder knows that well.
Some people accumulate ridiculous amounts of playtime yet they can still objectively be massive irredeemable shitters.[/QUOTE]
Can confirm. 700 hours on TF2 over five years, still suck at it.
I always saw "perfection" as you merely having enough generality to successfully cope with situations. (i.e. knowledge)
A book can teach you it's content but that won't get you anywhere if you don't experience what you've learned, so someone may know everything about a guitar but be unable to play it.
Watching my friend play MGE in TF2 and he does the same things every time and makes the same mistakes. He's technically practicing but he's not achieving anything because he isn't practicing to improve he's practicing to do what little he can already do better. I think the same probably applies to everything else, practice wrong for 10000 hours, achieve little, practice right for 100 hours achieve a lot.
Well, I find people mindlessly practice things, without having a specific check list of goals to achieve and bad habits to get rid of.
It's not only a matter of having just a genetic knack, but having a well thought out method for what you should be doing during your practice and training time really helps.
Generally this is what people should be doing. Compete like you train and train like you compete, I'm a dancer and I've had training sessions where I would go in circles trying to perfect runs to a certain beat to a certain song for hours on end. However, once you get to a certain level, you KNOW what is wrong and what is right, but you have to figure out how to fix it, and you will not be able to fix it within 2 weeks without actively thinking about it, meaning that you must know everything else from muscle memory and that's where training comes in. Training makes you remember things through muscle memory not from offhand thinking on the spot, your body anticipates what you need to do subconsciously and does it automatically, for dance this includes knowing your steps ( you literally go on autopilot and just do shit, its crazy once it starts happening ), knowing a song, what plays to do in rugby ect.
So training poorly or incorrectly will only make yourself worse, it's why people have coaches, so they can see what your doing incorrectly and tell you. Think of training like school, the teacher tells you what you're doing wrong and right and what you need to do, but can't follow you home and do your homework with you. On top of that, training forces your brain to think differently, often making you ignore other senses to heighten others. For instance, in a competition, I usually loose all feeling of pain and can't see where I'm going (can't think about it), but I can notice the tiniest deviations in the positions of my feet and time feels slower( 2m 30s usually feels about 10 minutes long ), but stuff like this isn't natural and only comes from practicing correctly.
[QUOTE=Megadave;47322848]Who needs perfect? If everything was perfect can you imagine how boring that would be?[/QUOTE]
is this a quote from a hot topic shirt
practice is overrated, I just work with my raw talent and screw the things I'm not good at.
For example, I've never worked out before and I was the strongest kid in highschool, because I have strong Russian genes. But fuck I've wanted to learn to play guitar, but After about a year of playing, I still can't do shit, my fingers just don't want to work that way.
I think the key is you have to want to be great, or perfect, at something. For instance, if you buy a guitar because you 'want' to learn to play, but by that you mean you think it would be cool to know how to play it, lots of practice will only get you so far. The guy who truly wants to be able to play, for the sake of playing, that's the guy who will reap the benefits of practice.
This is why parents can make their kid take piano lessons and still see the kid can't play anything except a dirge-like Mary had a Little Lamb. Meanwhile someone else's kid is a prodigy, because that kid is obsessed with learning to play even if his parents don't care one way or another about it.
Practice doesn't mean anything if you aren't approaching the subject appropriately. You have to take the time to study the material and figure out how to best approach it.
[QUOTE=Gwoodman;47323009]this means none of you will ever be good at sex no matter what[/QUOTE]
My advantage is there's no chance I'll get it therefore I can't fail at it.
Love pillows don't have the ability to complain either so I've got that going for me also.
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