Hi There! I hope your March is full of korean food and drama like ours has been. My wife has introduced me to K-Dramas and I'm now completely hooked. Watching these shows has given me a valuable insight: the best way to learn is through practice. But before we delve into that...

Weekly Inventory Check:

The principle of practice also applies to checking in with yourself. By regularly assessing your emotions and objectives, you can become more attuned to the person you aspire to be. As they say, practice makes perfect. So, try practicing prioritizing yourself by taking the time to check in with how you're feeling right now.

Practice Makes Perfect

In the show, the protaganist is a maths teacher, a star teacher. Apparently a star teacher is that teacher who promises the kids great results in their final national exams. In pakistan we had a similar concept of tuitions and star teachers. My star teacher wasn't particularly famous but was a gem of a person, Sir Faisal we used to call him. He was such a warm person and a wonderful teacher that I remember him even after 10 years. So this teacher was tutoring a student and told her practice is the best way to learn mathematics.

I think there is a lot of depth to that line. Practice can make anything better. Habits are a form of practise, even communication and relationships with people are a result of practicing and becoming a more relatable, likeable, compatible person over time. In university, I never did practice exercises, but I now see the value in learning through repetition. Although it may seem like mere rote memorization without learning anything new, studies (1, 2, 3) show that repetition does enhance the learning process. However, there is also contradictory evidence in some cases. Although I used to hate repeating movies, lectures, or exercises, repetition is actually a useful tool for self-development and should be added to our toolkit.

Do you agree or disagree? Shoot me an email. Would love to hear your thoughts!

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Repition is the First Principle of Learning.

Although repetition may have a negative connotation in academia and the arts, HBR argues in favor of it

Merely putting in the hours is not enough; practice must be effective.

Read of the Week

Habits are the gold standard of practice. To recommend a book on habits, you cannot go wrong with James Clear's Atomic Habits. It is a great book on how to build effective habits and systems. It is not just all theory but also provides a practical framework to do so.

Thoughts to Leave you With

I am still very bad at repitition to be honest. I hate repeating movies, podcasts, or games i have finished. However, when it comes to learning and building better systems, I see the value of repitition. After all, exercise, meditation, and routines are all a system based on repitition. So let us give repitition another chance and try it out for a while and see if it indeed helps us improve ourselves.