If you’re a relentlessly upbeat thinker, you may be enamored of the 10,000-hour rule, which holds that if you simply practice something regularly for a long enough time, you’ll eventually achieve ...

If you’re someone who loves golf practice, good on you, because it’s difficult for many amateurs to truly commit to a regular routine or plan. Not only that, but finding the time to hit balls a few ...

The next time you putt 100 balls at the range, because you know the practice will improve your short game, know this: it probably won’t. Why? Because it’s not just practice that makes perfect. It’s ...

In this article, I examine what science tells us about effective practice and instruction. I explore whether the idiom ‘practice makes perfect’ stands up to scrutiny. This idiom has two fundamental ...

Creating a yoga practice is a distinctly human art—so we asked ChatGPT to give it a try. The results were a study in the limitations of AI.

The following is adapted from Learn Better by Ulrich Boser. By permission of Rodale Books. For me at least, the science of practice first showed its power at the 3-point line. It was an hour into the ...

Some people are dramatically better at activities like sports, music and chess than other people. Take the basketball great Stephen Curry. This past season, breaking the record he set last year by ...