To Play More Accurately, Change Your Focus?
When it comes to improving technical aspects of your playing, it's easy to assume that this is mostly a physical issue. Where the solution is to do more practice, and more "correct" repetitions.
But what if part of the problem was mental?
A 2009 golf study (and many others both before and since!) suggest that what we're thinking about when we're playing can affect our accuracy quite a bit. And that the thing we think we should be thinking about may actually be the least helpful!
Get all the nerdy details here:
To Play More Accurately, Change Your Focus?
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When it comes to improving technical aspects of your playing, it's easy to assume that this is mostly a physical issue. Where the solution is to do more practice, and more "correct" repetitions.
But what if part of the problem was mental?
A 2009 golf study (and many others both before and since!) suggest that what we're thinking about when we're playing can affect our accuracy quite a bit. And that the thing we think we should be thinking about may actually be the least helpful!
Get all the nerdy details here:
To Play More Accurately, Change Your Focus?
More from The Bulletproof Musician
- Get the free weekly newsletter, for more nerdy details and bonus subscriber-only content.
- Pressure Proof: A free 7-day performance practice crash course that will help you shrink the gap between the practice room and the stage.
- Learning Lab: A continuing education community where musicians and learners are putting research into practice.
- Live and self-paced courses
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