You play how you practice
Every time you decide to practice a skill, you develop muscle memory. Your body learns how to react through the repetitions it goes through.
That is why it’s important to practice how you play.
If you decide to practice sloppily, any time you have to “play” you have to think about the “proper” way to do it.
Each action starts to cost you willpower.
You have limited willpower.
If you practice a certain way, it isn’t a matter of if that way is appearing when it counts, it’s a matter of when.
If the right way is natural, then that way will show up when it counts.
So practice how you want to play. You’ll love it when the stakes are “real.”
And you can save that willpower for a courageous act (art), instead of just keeping afloat (survival).
From the desk of Adam Thomas 