I remember a metaphor from the olden days of NHS dentistry around the time I first went into practise about three years qualified where they used to talk about a guy who worked his whole career of 40 years placing dental amalgams as much as he could.
All day, every day, silver fillings pressed in with his thumb, poor quality, getting paid piecemeal time and time again until he retired.
A million fillings in a career, none of them very good.
I've always remembered that metaphor: quantity does not necessarily mean quality.
The guys chasing 1000 dental implants placed yearly are rarely very good.
There is always a standard deviation curve related to this.
Understanding that what we need to be better is to think about what we're doing and to schedule time to think and to have space to think.
In Matthew Walker's book Why We Sleep, he describes the biological process of what happens when you're trying to learn a difficult piano piece and you don't get it. Then you go to sleep and wake up the next morning and are able to play it.
Learning is a biological process, it takes time, it takes thought, it takes space, just continually doing doesn't cut it literally, reflection is essential.
Blog Post Number - 3931
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