"Practice makes perfect" is a phrase I've always found a bit misleading.
Sure, practice is essential to get better at something, but it's not the whole story.
Just grinding away, putting in hours, won't automatically make you a master.
Real mastery comes from feedback and deep reflection
People spend their whole lives trying to master a skill…
But they only ever become “good enough”.
They never attain true mastery…
Why?
Because they made the mistake of putting in 10,000 hours of practice without any feedback or reflection.
If I trained on my own throughout my fighting career, I would have never made it to the UFC.
From the beginning I understood that I needed a fight coach.
I needed someone in my corner who was going to point out my mistakes and push me to get better everyday.
Someone to tell me the truth and force me to reflect on what I was doing wrong..
This is where real mastery comes from.
You need someone in your corner if you’re going to master anything in life.
And you need deep reflection if you want any of your practice sessions to mean something.
- Luke