Winnowing Oar - Errors vs. Bugs and the End of Stupidity: "In fact, wrong notes always have a cause. An immediate physical cause. Just before you play a wrong note, your fingers were in a position that made that wrong note inevitable. Fixing wrong notes isn't about "practicing harder" but about trying to unkink those systematically error-causing fingerings and hand motions. That's where the "schizophrenia" comes in: pretending you can move your fingers with your mind is a kind of mindfulness meditation that can make it easier to unlearn the calcified patterns of movement that cause mistakes.
Remembering that experience, I realized that we really tend to think about mistakes wrong, in the context of music performance but also in the context of academic performance."
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