Does long time prictice lead us to our target destinations?

Question

In my childhood, I used to think that it's not necessary to practise regularly. Sometimes, I was eager to learn new things. To put it in a nutshell, I preferred learning to practice. In the long run, I forgot what I've learnt in the former as if a farmer who wanna plough his field but forgets his tractor at home. I have ever heard the proverb "Practice makes perfect". Does it mean repeated practice leads us to success?

Answer 1

Within 2 weeks, most people who passively learn (read/learn without practice or engagement into the activity) lose like 70-80% of what they've learned. That's why a lot of school systems in the world that allow kids to take 3 months off for summer end up having to retrain them most of the material and waste time. However, humans (especially the brain) LOVES active learning and new high-energy situation; it stimulates the brain and causes the information obtained in those moments to solidify. With active learning, you retain most information being presented, and it's actually the same method that people who compete in memory competitions use.

In short, you'll always want to practice with your studying, and you'll want to engage into the things you do rather than passively observe them. This is how you'll best remember what you've learned, but even further, that's how you'll become better at it. You learn a lot from practicing, such as all the ways of how not to go about something or new ways of how you could go about something. It's like learning an alphabet from a new language; once you know the syntax of the language, you'll want to speak/write to other people in that language as practice so you can become better at it and best remember the language.

Anyways, hope this provides some insight. As they say, if you don't use it you lose it, so make sure you use what you've learned or your brain will deem it unnecessary and kill it off because it's a very efficient machine.

Answer 2

If you practise, you will memorize whatever your learning easier.

Answer 3

I suppose looking at the issue from the perspective of neuroscience, repeated action or though strengths neural pathways in the human brain. Thus, such constant reinforcement leads to stronger memories.

Alternatively unused pathways decay causing the individual to forget.

This means that "practice makes perminant" (not my own). If you want to learn something and remember it along time after, it is wise to regularly use and reinforce it.