After Identifying the fact that practice doesn't necessarily make perfect, but Practice only makes Consistent, we can now zoom in to look at this in a little more detail.
Read more: Practice Makes Consistent - 10'000 Hours Make More Consistent
When experienced snorkellers and experienced scuba divers hear about freediving courses, they often ask us:
"Freediving is just snorkelling. What could I possibly learn in a course?"
Anyone who has been in one of our courses will have a somewhat better idea of just how much there is to learn.
Read more: What do You Learn in a Beginners' Freediving Course?
The Socratic Method is a way of questioning one's knowledge and theories of the world in a way that exposes gaps, discontinuities and contradictions in a productive way.
We all have one problem in common. When we are not good at something, we lack the very competence to assess this lack of competence, that means we have no way of telling that we're not good at it.
One of the greatest misconceptions in training is the idea that "Practice makes Perfect".
As part of the TED series, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the flow state that is so essential not only for successful freediving, but any form of training and goal setting.
Read more: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Flow and what makes life worth living
- Dominik Schwarz - Using Anchors in Freediving
- Yoshua Surjo - Communicating Freediving to The General Public
- Jan Bareš - Time Distortion in Static Apnea
- Rachel Cat Wang - The Chinese Culture and its Role in Learning how to Freedive
- The No-Touching Rule in AIDA Competitions
- Richard Marsh - The History and Future of Freediving for the Koh Surin Moken
