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Jonathan Harnum
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If you're alive, you're trying to get better at something. It could be your golf swing or guitar, parenting or painting, gaming, cooking, or any other skill.
The strategies in this book are top-shelf, pulled from neuroscience, research on excellence, and world-class masters in many fields, presented in an easy-to-understand style that is sometimes funny and always friendly.
Hundreds of helpful images and graphics.
Six sections, 42 hacks:
1-Talent Is Practice in Disguise: Learn the three kinds of practice, and how your brain is rewired when you learn new skills.
2-Motivation Is Like Bathing (A Daily Requirement): Your deepest, unspoken beliefs profoundly affect your motivation to improve, ya filthy animal.
3-You Are Unique (And So Is Everybody Else): Learn why your reaction to difficulty matters. And why teachers and coaches matter just as much.
4-Time: The Most Valuable Thing You Spend: Forget the 10,000-hour rule. Practice time isn’t what you’ve been led to believe, nor is it otherwise.
5-Where You At? Where you practice and who you’re with will affect how fast and how much you improve. What can you do about it?
6-Do it To it! Some of the most effective practice strategies and techniques: used by pros, tested by science!
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I'm finding the lesson audio book quite helpful.
- By Caroline Hunt on 04-16-21
By: Guitar Nation
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Music and Mind
- Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness
- By: Renée Fleming - editor, Francis S. Collins MD PhD
- Narrated by: Gina Daniels, Carin Gilfry, Patty Nieman, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions, from providing pain relief and alleviating anxiety and depression to regaining speech after stroke or traumatic brain injury, and improving mobility for people with disorders that include Parkinson’s disease and MS.
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Sound Matters
- By trusting shopper on 04-22-24
By: Renée Fleming - editor, and others
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Essential Chords and Scales for Guitar
- The Secrets You Need to Play Almost Every Popular Song Ever Written
- By: Nick Morrison
- Narrated by: Nick Morrison
- Length: 41 mins
- Unabridged
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I could play and read tabs - but I didn't really understand what I was doing. It doesn't have to take you that long! You can learn the basics here in just a few minutes! This book is here to make things simple! I'm going to break things down and make it so simple, that you’ll understand the basics of guitar theory from day one!
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Demystifying the fretboard
- By Chuzpah on 05-03-21
By: Nick Morrison
Practice like this 35 affective ways to get better faster
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I preferred the author's other book: The Practice of Practice which is twice the length but more specific to the subject of music practice. Nevertheless this book is great and should be helpful for almost anyone wishing to improve at almost anything.
The book, perhaps because of its short length and the amount of material need to be covered, moves along at quite a fast pace. If you're trying to learn how to practice practicing well, slow down as the book says. Think or meditate about each of the 35 recommendations. There's gold in them there hills but you'll miss it if you rush by to quickly.
Good book (Edited review)
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Practice Like This
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Why 5? Because 6 Wasn't an Option
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Very informative and helpful, no fluff!
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best!
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meat and potatoes
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Great Book for Musicians as well as other crafts
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I was pleasently surprised! There are many great concepts in this book like chaining and performance speed chunking that I am excited to use. It contains unique information different from Dan Coyle, Josh Kauffman, and Tim Ferriss.
Good listen!
Very Surprised!
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I like it
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