http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/op...ooks.html?_r=2
The article is being discussed elsewhere. Regardless of feeling on the TR issue(and this article is unrelated), a poster had this very relevant notation:
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One of my instructors is considered a martial arts "genius". He trains and teaches hours daily. You cannot have a conversation with him which does not revolve around martial arts. When he drives he thinks about martial arts and elbows the steering wheel. He is a martial arts savant. I do not wish this on anyone, it effects relationships and lifestyle. Nothing is wrong with being really good. But even real good needs work.
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Just a bit more, from someone else:
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I thought the 'X,000 hours' part was fairly widely accepted. I highlighted the other specifically because I see people making the same mistakes night after night (raises hand - "Guilty Your Honor"). Even when I'm trying to be diligent my mind wants to race through things. Without deliberate conscious effort to focus on the details we inevitably reduce what is presented (or what we know ourselves) to a diluted or distorted approximation, perhaps still reasonably effective, perhaps not. It's not exactly the same phenomena but it's no surprise when it comes time to roll to see people fail at things they 'know' because they rush through them missing half the details.
On the other hand, to say it's important to slow down isn't the same as saying we should do everything slow. I was going to babble about that but the clock says it's time to go... Follow up on that later if someone else doesn't happily (and better qualified) beat me to it.
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