Quality Over Quantity “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Will Durant It’s all to easy to think that more is simply better, especially where training is concerned. This has long been a struggle of mine. That’s partially because of my personality type, and partially because of the nature of much of my early training, both military and even earlier in the dojos of my youth. It’s a flawed paradigm though. As others have said, practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes permanent. Or at least it makes long-term. I have damaged my shooting, and other skills, in the past by practicing incorrectly. Especially because of my tendency towards a more is better mindset. Don’t misunderstand my point here. Volume is absolutely necessary, as is frequency. No one ever truly masters a skill without a large amount of frequent and focused effort. But it has to be the correct effort and intelligently applied. Simply throwing sloppy effort at a skill will never get you to the level that quality practice will. Each repetition, each training session, must be purposeful and mindful. Every press of the trigger, every round fired, every step of footwork, should be a lesson learned. You need training volume and frequency to improve, but quantity alone won’t get you where you need to be without a commensurate focus on quality effort. Quality over quantity. #thewayisintraining #greybeardactual #trainlikeanathlete (at The Way) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfG2HgdrQqK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=