Sublime

remain process oriented rather than goal oriented.

Effectiveness, in other words, is a habit; that is, a complex of practices. And practices can always be learned. Practices are simple, deceptively so; even a seven-year-old has no difficulty in understanding a practice. But practices are always exceedingly hard to do well. They have to be acquired, as we all learn the multiplication table; that is,

What exactly is “practice”? In The Reflective Practitioner, Donald Schon identifies the essential principles of practice as experimentation in a “virtual world.” A virtual world is a “constructed representation of the real world.”

What exactly is “practice”? In The Reflective Practitioner, Donald Schon identifies the essential principles of practice as experimentation in a “virtual world.” A virtual world is a “constructed representation of the real world.”

In performance cultures, people often become attached to best practices. The risk is that once we’ve declared a routine the best, it becomes frozen in time. We preach about its virtues and stop questioning its vices, no longer curious about where it’s imperfect and where it could improve.

practice implies engagement in a ritual. A practice may be defined as the dedicated, daily exercise of commitment, will, and focused intention aimed, on one level, at the achievement of mastery in a field but, on a loftier level, intended to produce a communion with a power greater than ourselves — call it whatever you like: God, mind, soul, Self,

PRAXIS. (noun) from the ancient Greek πρᾶξις: The process by which a theory or skill is enacted or realised. Putting ideas into practice; concrete action; doing.