Nick Walker - Coyle - Ch 1-2

I made a numbered list, taken from some of the things Clarissa demonstrated during her practice, that I thought would be useful to remember when I go into the practice room.  

1.     Work with a blueprint in mind to compare yourself to.

2.     Work in both phrases and complete thoughts.  

3.     Don’t ignore your errors!  Hear them and fix them.  

4.     Focus in on the individual parts of the piece, and then look at the whole.  

5.     Don’t just run through a piece! 

A part of practicing is always going to include a bit of struggle.  

I have found that if I can independently remember someone's name, instead of asking or being told what it is every time, I can remember their name more consistently.  

Skill - "myelin insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows according to certain signals".  

Coyle says "Once a skill circuit is insulated, you can't un-insulate it”.  I think that's why learning something incorrectly, and then having to fix it later is so difficult.  You already have the myelin connections for the incorrect action.