How Can I Learn How To?Repeatably Repeat Right Repetitions

“Aristotle once commented on the importance of repetition in education by noting,

“It is frequent repetition that produces a natural tendency.”

Repetition is a key learning aid because it helps transition a skill from the conscious to the subconscious. Through repetition, a skill is practiced and rehearsed over time and gradually becomes easier. As the student improves, he or she does not need to think consciously about the skill, freeing up mental resources to learn new skills and concepts.

Importantly, practice alone doesn’t make perfect — perfect practice makes perfect.

Otherwise, bad habits will become ingrained.”

~ https://aplnexted.com/blog/best-practices-for-teaching/Focus-and-Repetition-in-Learning

I’ve noticed I have learned the basics of many topics throughout my life. 

How to shoot a gun, bow and arrow, pool and darts. I can drive anything with four wheels, two wheels… motorcycle’s… I crash motorcycles. I can hunt, fish and trap. I can do lots of different kinds of work. I’ve tried my hand at owning service businesses… automotive, animal removal and a restaurant. Along with many basic skills using my hands and brain like… welding, landscaping and re-sizing those arrows I shoot.

So I believe, and know what Mr. David Goggins says to be true…

“The answers lay in the repetitions.”

I’ve also learned you can apply what you know when you start something new to help learn the new topic or skill, but… it will also take a certain amount of time to become proficient at it.

My current day job has placed an emphasis on my mental strength capacities, and has shown me where those current limitations are set at.

At my new job it doesn’t seem you learn anything when you do everything right, only when you make a mistake does the lesson get set. My supervisor has been good about it, but my personal proclivity doesn’t like making the mistake in the first place. Regardless if, “everybody does it, learn and move on.”

I can see Gods hand at work in my life and I know this mental stress is a good thing, in that, it has shown me my limitations, has shown me a way to strengthen my mental fortitude, and I can’t help but feel he is preparing me for something down the road. I have an anticipation about it.

Along with my new job I have continued to write. I am struggling getting into a consistent writing schedule as my new job is a night job. The difference in my writing endeavor is the urge, or unction, that I have when I haven’t written in a few days or a week. I get antsy.

I like that. It feels right. Writing satisfies me. When I’m writing both my hands and brain are working in concert to produce onto paper/screen a thought that I have and during the process of… thinking, wondering and researching I become satisfied.

I haven’t had that feeling before in my life. No matter what I was learning, or what skill I was employing, I never felt like it was good enough. It may have been good enough for the time… but I knew something was missing because I wasn’t an expert carpenter, trapper or mechanic. And I knew the quality could be better… and so I was never satisfied.

One thing I have learned through all that experience is that to be in a particular field of work you need to start, and once started… you need to produce a body of work. With that body of work you learn as you produce each new item, learning through… repeatably repeating right repetitions.

With today’s technology becoming a writer has never been simpler. With the access to websites, like this one, self publishing services, and information online that shows you how to pitch an idea for a magazine to buy an article, the hurdles have been removed and you just need to run the race straight up!

I have begun to compile my body of work. I feel satisfied, even when I think what I’ve written isn’t that good. I know I will learn something from it that will make me a better writer tomorrow.

I am satisfied… and yet have the urge and unction to press on.