while(self++) { #41 } // Practicing How To ______

When I was younger, I didn’t like my dance classes much. But as I started to care more about it and strove to improve, I started doing a strange thing. I would watch my teacher do the moves, imagine myself doing them in my head and then just barely miming the actions. If it was a jump or a complicated sequence, this helped a lot. Research shows that such imagination is apparently a useful technique for achieving success! All this to say, I prefer to do "dry-runs" where possible. This doesn’t only include doing it myself. It could mean hearing about other people’s experiences and learning from them.

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