“Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results”

Re:“Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different... by balabaster on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:39PM (#13979359)

Practice is doing something ever so slightly different each time until you perfect it. Once you get to a point of perfection (which you never really do), you do the same thing over and over again expecting the same result... that muscle memory will now take over and you do whatever it is without conscious thought.

So no, it's not quite doing the same thing over and over again. If that were the case, you'd suck just as much after 10,000 hours as you did at the start and be far more frustrated because you expected to get better, but you were doing the same wrong things with every iteration.

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Re:“Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different... by AstralStorm on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:45PM (#13979427)

Depends. Doing the exact same thing may make you faster at performance. Up to a limit of course.

Or it may cause mistakes elsewhere. Determinism of this kind is for children.

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Re:“Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different... by spencerflem on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:03AM (#13983297)

Doesn't doing something faster count as slightly different?

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Re:“Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different... by balabaster on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:43AM (#13986103)

This is what I was thinking, but I didn't pursue the argument because "determinism is for children" struck me as an ad hominem argument and I have better things to do than argue with that.

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