Latest / Mental Per4mance Daily with Adam Rutz / Practice Doesn't Make Perfect
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- Adam Rutz: Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. You see, one of the biggest misconceptions about improvement is that simply putting in more time and more reps automatically will make you better. And that's not necessarily true. Because if you're practicing the wrong things, say using poor technique or repeating the same mistakes over and over, all you're doing is getting really good at doing something incorrectly. Think about two baseball players going into the batting cage. One of them takes 200 swings just going through the motions without any real purpose behind what they're doing. The other one takes only 75 swings, but every rep has intention. He's working on a specific weakness, making adjustments, getting feedback, and trying to improve something about his swing. Who's really getting better? It's not necessarily the player putting in more time. It's the player making better use of that time. And this applies to everything we do in life. You can make 100 sales calls every day, but if you're not evaluating your conversations, learning from your mistakes, and improving your approach, you might just be reinforcing bad habits. There's a difference between repetition and deliberate practice. Deliberate practice means identifying something specific you want to improve, working on it with intention, getting feedback, and making adjustments. That's how real growth happens. And look. I talk about this all the time: the importance of consistency, doing a little a lot. But consistency without intentional improvement can eventually lead to stagnation. Here's what I want you to work on today. Identify one area of your life where you've been putting in the reps, but haven't been seeing the improvement you're looking for. Ask yourself: Am I actually practicing to get better or am I just going through the motions? Because The goal isn't just to work harder or do more. The goal is to become better at what you do. Don't just count your reps, make sure you make the reps count. Mindset, process, discipline, execution. That's mental performance daily.