persuasive-more work means better results

 practice focus, important skills

more opportunity to expand learning

learn from mistakes

20MIN

"Practice makes perfect." The one phrase uttered by teachers or adults alike worldwide. But there's a reason that repetition of learning content is so encouraged-it's actually effective! Not only can you go over your content before you forget it, but you're practicing other important mental skills and there's always opportunity to learn more or from your mistakes. So next time someone says so, take the initiative to pause and really follow their advice-you'll never know where it might take you.

Thanks to repeated revision you can develop mental skills essential for any dream job or any life situation. Committing yourself to practicing something, criticising your work and learning to really apply yourself to it teaches focus, humility, independence and concentration. Whether you're in a test, job interview or simply cooking tonight's dinner you need these skills for sure success. If you don't do so, you're unconsciously practicing the art of procrastination, laziness and a lack of problem solving skills. It may be one little thing-but one day you'll deeply regret not having better self-discipline.

Another common regret is having missed the opportunity to extend on your knowledge. Practicing something means you're willing to go find new content to keep revising. You are passionate about the subject. This way you can find even more helpful or interesting content, and improve even more. Procrastinating does nothing but prove as a temporary distraction. It doesn't fix anything, it doesn't improve anything. It rather worsens your ability as you don't train your brain or body. Practice time is a chance for you to find something new-and that's the magic of dedication.

Last but not least, you can also learn from your mistakes. The more you practice, the more you can pick up on your weaknesses. The more you practice on strengthening those, the more you improve. It's unlikely you'll make a mistake again once you practice enough to smoothen out those wrinkles. Look at all the skilled mathematicians, science geniuses, the talented music artists-they would have had to make millions of mistakes to realise their faults, and practice even more to get them where they are now. No one does something once and is immediately an expert. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how many mistakes you make but how dedicated you are to fixing them.

So, does practice really make perfect? One cannot determine what perfect is, so the more preferable saying would be 'practice makes progress'. It always does. As you look on the past, look for more opportunities and grow as a learner, practice is the key to success and always has been. And when you achieve your goal, you can reflect on all that hard work and say, 'It's all thanks to my practice that I'm here now.'