Take that (not) Einstein!

  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    14 hours ago

    No.

    You’re either doing the thing right, and expecting the same result, or you’re doing it wrong and then adjusting. Either way, you’re not doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.worldOP
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      13 hours ago

      You are doing the same thing (e.g. practising a specific piece of music on a specific instrument). If you are doing it poorly or on world-class level, it is still the same thing. It’s not identical actions within the task of practising that song, but no matter how good you are, it would be still called the same thing (“practising to play song X on instrument Y”).

      • DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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        12 hours ago

        You reworded my comment.

        edit. You’ve lost your keys. You look in your pants pocket 500 times. Insanity, because you’re doing the same thing and expecting that this time the keys will show up, even though they weren’t there the first 499 times.

        You play “O, Canada” on the steel drums 500 times. Sometimes you play it through perfectly and occasionally you make a mistake. You note the mistakes. When you play it right you’re getting the result you expect, and if you make a mistake, you adjust.