“Excuse me, sir, can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?”
“Practice, practice, practice.”
Yes, sometimes the oldies are the goodies.
We’re all familiar with Malcolm Gladwell’s assertion that it takes 10,000 hours to achieve mastery in a given field. We can quibble with the number but I suspect most of us agree with the premise. It takes practice to become good, more practice to become better than good.
Jazz musicians call it “woodshedding.”
Even Mozart had to practice his scales.
Which brings us to Duke’s struggling football program.
David Cutcliffe has always been a cheerleader for good practices as the best way to develop good habits, the best way to turn defeat into victory.