When you practice, do you focus on execution or results? You can observe and reflect on both, for sure, but which one do you give more attention?
If you want to practice well, keep your attention on execution of the skill, without concern for the outcome. Especially early and then regularly throughout your practice patterns. During serious skill development the result just doesn’t matter much. You’re not trying to engineer an outcome. You’re trying to engage in a deeper level of learning that eventually leads to better results. But you have to get good at it first and you can’t rush that. You need time and reps to learn how.
Focus on how you do it, how it feels, how the elements involved fit together, and how they affect each other. Assume your practice results will be inconsistent, even bad. Practice isn’t the time to perform and look good. It’s the time to learn how to execute and that usually looks awkward. That’s how you create consistency. That’s how you create confidence. That’s how you build skill.
When you practice, fix your focus on execution. Detach from outcomes. Results will get better, and come faster, after you learn how to execute well.
Discipline is the shortcut. Do the work.
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