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Archives for March 2011

Are You an Amateur or a Pro?

March 1, 2011 by natalie 1 Comment

The other day I read an article called, Pushing Past the O.K. Plateau, and was especially struck by this quote from Joshua Foer: “Amateur musicians, for example, tend to spend their practice time playing music, whereas pros tend to work through tedious exercises or focus on difficult parts of pieces.” Here’s a fascinating paragraph that […]

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