2013-04-11

Practice Can Help Reach Perfection

I was thinking about practice for some reason earlier. 

Here's the thing. Practice matters.

It matters more than you or people like Allen Iverson (see famous practice rant here) can or could ever imagine. Maybe it explains in part Iverson was never part of a championship team or really matured as a pro athlete.

ALL champions play hard during games. And every single champion has one common defining feature and characteristic they ALL share. The took practice seriously.

Mike Bossy went to my high school long before I attended but it was well known he spent hours upon hours shooting the puck at the rink before, after and probably during school hours. Bossy of course is now regarded to be the "purist" goal scorer in NHL history. Not a bad tag considering the likes of Maurice Richard, Gordie Howe, Bobby and Brett Hull, Mario Lemieux and of course Wayne Gretzky. 99 was all about practice. He was the greatest player ever and was the first one on the ice, last one off.

There are cases like this in all major sports. In Iverson's own sport Kobe Bryant treats practice as if it's a game. How many titles does Bryant? 

Iverson was an awesome player. So good that he made one of USA's legendary Dream Teams at the Olympics.

But he wasn't into practice. Too bad.

It's not just in sports. Musicians and writers, for example, spend hours upon hours practicing.

Practice is a way to avoid mistakes through repetition. It's tedious but true geniuses take it seriously.

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