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Performing at any sport is a matter of effectively storing and releasing energy.
Core Performance
Mark Verstegen, Pete Williams
Those whose love we wanted but could not get, we emulate. It is dangerous but it makes us feel closer, gives us an illusion of the intimacy we never had. It stakes our claim upon that which was rightfully ours but denied. In my twenties, as my song and my story began to take shape, I searched for the voice I would blend with mine to do the telling. It is a moment when through creativity and will you can rework, repossess and rebirth the conflicting voices of your childhood, to turn them into something alive, powerful and seeking light. I’m a repairman. That’s part of my job. So I, who’d never done a week’s worth of manual labor in my life (hail, hail rock ’n’ roll!), put on a factory worker’s clothes, my father’s clothes, and went to work.
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
Break It Up There is a lot of evidence that spreading out a learning task will help you learn it more quickly. This means it’s better to practice a short bit every day than it is to sit down for three hours once a week. Taking it a step further, breaking up your practice into two or more sessions per day is also better than one long chunk of time just once a day. Many professional musicians have an intensive practice session earlier in the day and a lighter one later in the day, usually after a nap. If you can, do at least two sessions. This topic is important enough to merit its own short chapter, next.
The Practice of Practice
Jonathan Harnum
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