Practice makes...
"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. " V ince Lombardi https://youtu.be/JjYeREIHCsw I prefer the much shorter version of this quote, "Practice makes permanent." I first heard this shorter version of this phrase when I was a young teacher, when a much more experienced teacher came to work with my students, Mr. Ed Knob. Daniel Coyle, in his book, The Talent Code, discusses how the brain forms habits through the actual wrapping of synapses with a protein called, Myelin. The research suggests, that the act of repeated tasks creates this Myelin wrap that helps to speed up/automate certain tasks. This is what allows us to read more rapidly, solve math problems, write, balance a check book, throw a baseball etc...This protein is created with no regard to the correct way or the wrong way of doing a task; the process occurs as a result of repeated tasks. Aristotle said the same phrase, slightly more eloquently, "We are wh...