Month: June 2021

If I don’t practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it. – Jascha Heifetz

In the last post we learned how to recognize the difference between hard skills and soft skills. Now let’s dig deeper into how to develop hard skills. Hard skills aren’t necessarily difficult to perform, but their “hard”ness comes from their being well-defined and precise.

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“You can’t teach a kid to ride a bike at a seminar.” – David Sandler

As we work to develop our skill sets, we want to make sure that the type of practice we do is appropriate to the type of skill we aim to develop. Lifting weights while listening to audiobooks won’t make you a better reader. Just as taking 100 photographs a day won’t make you a better marksman.

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We all want the latest and greatest computer and software. Like Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, of TV’s Home Improvement, we want “more power!” But what happens when we get the super fast CPU and the huge amounts of RAM? We tend to get lazy. We don’t worry about saving extra copies of our application locally because disk is cheap. We don’t worry about memory usage or slow performance because the hardware hides it from us.

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