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This is probably the most epic papercraft i’ve seen.

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Practice makes perfect? Not so much

Turns out, that old “practice makes perfect” adage may be overblown.

New research led by Michigan State University’s Zach Hambrick finds that a copious amount of practice is not enough to explain why people differ in level of skill in two widely studied activities, chess and music.

In other words, it takes more than hard work to become an expert. Hambrick, writing in the research journal Intelligence, said natural talent and other factors likely play a role in mastering a complicated activity.

“Practice is indeed important to reach an elite level of performance, but this paper makes an overwhelming case that it isn’t enough,” said Hambrick, associate professor of psychology.

The debate over why and how people become experts has existed for more than a century. Many theorists argue that thousands of hours of focused, deliberate practice is sufficient to achieve elite status.

Hambrick disagrees.

“The evidence is quite clear,” he writes, “that some people do reach an elite level of performance without copious practice, while other people fail to do so despite copious practice.”

Hambrick and colleagues analyzed 14 studies of chess players and musicians, looking specifically at how practice was related to differences in performance. Practice, they found, accounted for only about one-third of the differences in skill in both music and chess.

So what made up the rest of the difference?

Based on existing research, Hambrick said it could be explained by factors such as intelligence or innate ability, and the age at which people start the particular activity. A previous study of Hambrick’s suggested that working memory capacity – which is closely related to general intelligence – may sometimes be the deciding factor between being good and great.

While the conclusion that practice may not make perfect runs counter to the popular view that just about anyone can achieve greatness if they work hard enough, Hambrick said there is a “silver lining” to the research.

“If people are given an accurate assessment of their abilities and the likelihood of achieving certain goals given those abilities,” he said, “they may gravitate toward domains in which they have a realistic chance of becoming an expert through deliberate practice.”

This is important.

Finally an actual study on this. Truth right there.

Yup, I’ll agree on that. I wonder if they’ll ever be able to tell whether we’re going to be great at something before we waste countless hours doing it.

Kinda explains why sometimes, you fail a test even if you practiced hard for it…

OTL”’

I wonder what would happen if I actually practiced copious amounts

I don’t know about you guys, but a problem I have is going into a trance when I work. That doesn’t really count as practice, I’m just relying on what I already know to carry me through. But if I switch on my brain and start thinking about why this line goes here, or how these frames could be spaced alternatively, I can actually see the improvement I’ve made by the end. So don’t get discouraged if lots of practice doesn’t seem to be helping, just try to stay mentally active the whole time and question why you’re doing the things you’re doing. It may help you get past a road block.

Awhile back, my teacher was asked this in a life drawing class. “What’s the point of practice when you have talent”? He answered this student, “Over my time teaching and in my life, I’ve came across many talented students and people. But when most got to a point of their learning they started having a hard time. Some of them just gave up but others practiced to overcome their block in the road.’

‘I’ve seen people that had no talent, but over years of learning and practicing they got better. Some of theses people are some of best students that graduated. They had jobs after graduation.’

‘Talent is great, but it can only get you so far.”

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chipperwhale:

Some things I’ve taught myself through out the years. I have not gone to college for art or comics, these are things I’ve learned by just trying to make comics by myself.

I’ve also learned this stuff on the fly, through reading and doing. Regarding that last one: you can also use other elements to guide the reader’s eye through the page - shapes of objects, perspective on elements that “zoom” from top to bottom or right to left, etc.

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lord-kitschener:

#this is problematic

omfg tumblr the name is not based on the idea that Africans are more aggressive theY’RE CALLED “AFRICANIZED” BECAUSE THEY’RE A HYBRID WITH AN AFRICAN BEE SPECIES JESUS CHRIST IT SAYS SO IN THE WIKIPEDIA PIECE YOU COPY/PASTED

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