Sublime

For people who perform for a living, the imperative of training the mind to execute unconsciously is also strong.

After presenting what is to be learned, why it’s important to us, and what it looks like, we begin the practices that allow us to fulfill on our vision. This is the critical difference in learning: that is, being able to actually take new actions, distinct from simply collecting new information. This comes from recurrent practices.

Appreciation

Movement work takes psychology out of private practice and makes it alive. It turns therapy into world theater. When we work with movement, psychology and therapy fade away, and instead ordinary reality becomes living art.

practice drives actions

An interpretation is only a guess, although the more you practice this activity, the better your guesses will be.

Students should be prepared to be shocked. In fact, they should welcome repeated shocks, because until the habits of hidden assumptions and expectations are derailed, they will become stronger, fatter, stickier, more comfortable, and more evasive.

Shake Up People—Even the Creatives

In other words, deliberate practice is for preparation, and flow is for performance.