Susan Cain Quote

They found a striking difference among the groups. All three groups spent the same amount of time—over fifty hours a week—participating in music-related activities. All three had similar classroom requirements making demands on their time. But the two best groups spent most of their musicrelated time practicing in solitude: 24.3 hours a week, or 3.5 hours a day, for the best group, compared with only 9.3 hours a week, or 1.3 hours a day, for the worst group. The best violinists rated practice alone as the most important of all their music-related activities. Elite musicians—even those who perform in groups—describe practice sessions with their chamber group as leisure compared with solo practice, where the real work gets done.

Susan Cain

They found a striking difference among the groups. All three groups spent the same amount of time—over fifty hours a week—participating in music-related activities. All three had similar classroom requirements making demands on their time. But the two best groups spent most of their musicrelated time practicing in solitude: 24.3 hours a week, or 3.5 hours a day, for the best group, compared with only 9.3 hours a week, or 1.3 hours a day, for the worst group. The best violinists rated practice alone as the most important of all their music-related activities. Elite musicians—even those who perform in groups—describe practice sessions with their chamber group as leisure compared with solo practice, where the real work gets done.

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