How Over learning Improves Performance

In music, there’s scales. In Jiu Jitsu, there’s drilling. However, most of us call it practice. Whatever you call it, many feel that greatness, even mere competency, requires training a skill way past its proficiency. This is continuing to practice your free-kicks in soccer even after you have nailed every shot. This is playing through that song one more time even though you have made no mistakes. Scientists call this training past the point of improvement – or in other words, “over learning.” A recent study in Nature Neuroscience suggests that over learning might improve performance by altering the chemicals in the brain that “lock” in training.

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