In the classic movie Bull Durham, Kevin Costner walks along dark street at night and stops underneath a streetlight. A gift wrap tube is sticking out of the nearby garbage can. Costner picks up the tube and practices his swing while finding his reflection in a window. This scene brilliantly captures what every master-of-their-craft knows [...]
If you had to give a piano performance a year from now, would you schedule all of your rehearsal time for the week before the show? Neither would we. If you practiced even ten minutes a day on your piano for the whole year, you’d give a better performance than if you played 20 [...]
A karate instructor told me to worry about moving with proper form, and let the speed come after. It’s true in taking tests too. There are a few of us out there who can take tests with no effort and do just fine. They’re rare. Most of us think of a test as [...]
When we were starting our test prep program, a school principal asked us why anyone would practice for a test that they can’t see beforehand anyway. I had just seen a documentary on a race called the Baja 1000, and so had a pretty good metaphor ready to go. The Baja 1000 course changes every [...]
