When learning and developing a skillset, how you practice (i.e. the process) is much more important than the results. If you practice the right way, the results will eventually come.

Whenever you practice, you are developing a habit. If you practice poorly without focus, intensity and effort, you will be developing bad habits. If you practice well, you will be developing good habits. It’s your choice every time you practice — either you will get better or worse. If you are having a bad day and don’t have the enthusiasm and desire to practice “the right way,” you shouldn’t practice at all because you will certainly regress as you reinforce bad habits.

Crappy practicing leading to crappy outcomes should be avoided at all costs. Good practicing that leads to crappy outcomes should be embraced — those crappy outcomes will eventually become brilliant outcomes with the right work ethic.

-Rakesh Shukla