The Rapid Feedback Loop

In school, students receive feedback every day. In the form of right or wrong answers, grades, and looks from the teachers.

In sports and dance, student receive feedback every practice (which may also be every day). Feedback on form, technique, efficiency, attitude, and more.

This is a rapid feedback loop. Students hear what they're doing wrong, are expected to fix it, and presumably get better. 

Except, what happens when you take the teacher or coach away?

Then, we have to create our own feedback loop.

This is the part they didn't teach us in school. Self-assessing, self-diagnosing, and figuring out how to improve ourselves.

We're not very good at it by nature.

I suspect this is why kids' sports teams and dance companies hold practice five days a week.

Can you imagine what would happen if they met once a week and showed the kids what to practice on their own for the rest of the week?

You know, like what happens in piano lessons...

Developing our own feedback loop is essential for success in all areas. Even if developing our feedback loop means finding people to give us feedback on our own. You know...voluntarily.

Develop this, and learning goes beyond the classroom. Beyond the team practice. 

The world itself becomes a lifelong learning experience.

And there are no limits to what you can do.