Neuroscience-based efficient practice schedule

twocats · 2024-05-15T16:46:46+00:00

I had meant to share this on PW a long time ago but never got around to it! My friend shared these videos by Dr. Molly Gebrian, a neuroscientist who is also...

Josephine

Animisha

I didn't know that was possible. My concentration skills were never good, but since a burn out a few years ago it's even worse. I need more breaks now. I often look on my phone during the breaks. Maybe I should stop doing that.

Animisha

Josephine

For micro breaks (ten seconds) I love to just look out of the window and space out a bit.

iternabe

Ithaca This got me wondering - who makes super-precision, high quality sand timers?

Some designer has been working on one 😉

Pallas

iternabe 😲

Ithaca

iternabe I love Italian design, but I don’t buy if it has moving parts. 😉

(I’ve heard wonderful things about Fazioli, but even if an amazing deal landed in my lap, I don’t know if psychologically I could pony up for one. I have an Italian friend whose father and sister are engineers, and he says that except for the Bialetti espresso maker, the things the family relies on are all German.)

Nightowl

Pallas Ha ha ha, well you did ask! How many have you ordered Pallas?!? 😁🙃

Pallas

Nightowl fifty-six

lilypad

Animisha For micro breaks (ten seconds) I love to just look out of the window and space out a bit.

Yes! My flower garden is just outside my window. If I'm lucky I might even see a hummingbird out there. When I'm finishing up practice at night, I glance up at paintings on the wall above my piano.

Nightowl

Animisha Same here, Animisha.

Only 56 Pallas? Why stop there?!? 😁🙃 @keystring has a nice batch too... you could form a society and call it the Timer Appreciation Society (TAS). 🙂

keystring

I got this batch last year before I knew of MG but similar purposes, and just to get better control of time use (doesn't always work 🙂 ). Added the digital timer which does countdowns or just counts up from zero, for the times I need something that beeps. With the discussion here I got curious so I set the digital timer to 10 minutes, flipped the 10 minute sand clock. 10 minutes were indeed 10 minutes to the second. 🙂

Ithaca

Pallas

twocats

After a night of searching, may I not suggest this one: https://imaestri.com/decor/art/decorative-objects/timeless-hourglass?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwmOm3BhC8ARIsAOSbapVgHTLs9exUKiXVVaMU71-NofI9LjbeYDGkC9lH2PtCtuftA7wbRfwaAnR6EALw_wcB

(TL;DR: $3,124 for a small hourglass with a ~ 12-week lead time. No.)

Pallas

Ithaca (TL;DR: $3,124 for a small hourglass with a ~ 12-week lead time. No.)

😲 Gosh.

keystring

The set I got seems to be precise, at least for the 10 minute one that I tested. My digital timer reached "0" when the last drop of sand fell in. I like being able to plan 5 minutes (etc.) with the hour glass, but also like being able to see how much time has elapsed via the digital timer's feature of counting up. Psychologically I found digital countdowns stressful: the sand clocks are relaxing which help with focus at the piano.

BartK

I just found this YouTube channel thanks to a post by @navindra in another thread and I think it's very relevant and relates to all the other stuff MG talked about:

The four practice strategies are:

Retrieval
Spaced Practice
Interleaving
Active Interrogation

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