Let's meet Bruno.
He is 11 years old and is trying to learn a new soccer move. Bruno moves slowly, feeling the ball roll under the soles of his shoes. Try to learn the elastic, a ball control maneuver in which Bruno lightly touches the ball with the outside of his foot and then swiftly moves it around to push it in the opposite direction with the inside of his foot.
When the movement is done correctly, it gives the impression that the player has the ball on an elastic band. Bruno tries, fails; then stop for a moment and think. Repeat the movement more slowly and fail again… The ball slips out of his foot. Then he stops and thinks again. Now go through the movement even more slowly, dividing it into parts: first this, then that, and finally that.
His face is tense; his gaze is so focused that it would give the impression that his mind is elsewhere. At this moment something happens: Bruno begins to master the movement.
Improve a skill
When we see people practicing or rehearsing effectively, we often describe the phenomenon with words like "willpower" or "concentration." But those expressions are not entirely accurate, since they do not capture the classic characteristic of that fact: climbing an icy slope. The people who are inside the seedbeds of the talent They carry out an activity that seems, at first glance, strange and surprising, they look for the hills of slippery slopes.
Like Bruno, they are deliberately acting on the edges of his skillso they know they will fail. And that, somehow, those mistakes will make them improve.
Since I have given you the example of Bruno, I leave you with a video about ball control: