<story><title>Variability, not repetition, is the key to mastery</title><url>https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/10/26/variable-mastery/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>In my own experience, it has required &lt;i&gt;both&lt;/i&gt; repetition, &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; variability.&lt;p&gt;I learn something new, every day, but what I learn, and how it is implemented, is highly dependent upon the phase my project is in.&lt;p&gt;Right now, the project I&amp;#x27;m working on is in the &amp;quot;home stretch.&amp;quot; There&amp;#x27;s still a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; more work needs doing, but it&amp;#x27;s fairly predictable, well-practiced stuff.&lt;p&gt;Getting to this point, though, has involved two years of researching alternative approaches, strategic and tactical designs and decisions, pivots, backpedalling, and bug-fixing.&lt;p&gt;And every day, I have been writing Swift code. Most of the time, I&amp;#x27;m using the same techniques as I was yesterday, but, every now and then, I try something different. Sometimes, that becomes a new habit.&lt;p&gt;In my personal opinion, there&amp;#x27;s really nothing like developing and releasing shipping applications to provide a rich experience in both repetition, and variance.</text></comment>
<story><title>Variability, not repetition, is the key to mastery</title><url>https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/10/26/variable-mastery/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gre</author><text>A common tactic in practicing music is to play a passage slowed down, sped up, with varying rhythms, up&amp;#x2F;down an octave, etc, with the idea that if you have complete mastery you can also play it the way it&amp;#x27;s written.</text></comment>