The next time you putt 100 balls at the range, because you know the practice will improve your short game, know this: it probably won’t. Why? Because it’s not just practice that makes perfect. It’s ...

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? According to the old joke, “practice, practice, practice.” While it may sound like good advice, it’s not the best or fastest path because practice can only get you so ...

Does practice always have to be perfect to learn? The original conceptualization was that the less variable and more structured practice the better for learning. The notion that skills have to be ...

Rowland Haines was playing Fillmore Hyde in the amateur squash tennis championship at the Princeton Club. The Harvard stroke connoisseur put over a gem of a shot, nicking the wall just above the tin, ...

In this article, I examine what science tells us about effective practice and instruction. I explore whether the idiom ‘practice makes perfect’ stands up to scrutiny. This idiom has two fundamental ...