It was the day before a high-stakes sales pitch. I was a consultant working with a sales rep, who was sweating it — literally. His manager and I watched him practice his presentation a final time — in ...

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 ...

Brooke Macnamara does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A persistent myth about practice is that practice makes perfect. This is true only if your actual practice is perfect, since only perfect practice makes perfect. Perfect Practice Source: Google Images ...