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ORIGINAL: Ricardo

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Back to flamenco on the foro. Here's a recently uploaded video of human consciousness in action.

About “consciousness” vs conscious decision making in the moment…perhaps you have heard singers that can imitate other singers to a T such that you can’t tell the difference? They dress and act and put on a show, much like a cover band but the unique aspect is the singer’s voice. There is such a guy named Brody Dolyniuk (check his videos), and he has a vocal technique where he can change his voice like a ventriloquist and imitate almost any singer. The thing is the actual technique itself to make a certain sound is totally involuntary…meaning no conscious effort to position the layrynx, move the tongue to correct position, control breathing etc. The conscious part is simply visualizing the “sound” then the brain accesses the memory of the sound and involuntarily forces all the physical things to align such that the sound goes out. Cante gitano like that, by these people that learned this as children, is the same thing. Mostly unconscious. Only the decision of the actual sequence of delivery of those learned sounds and letras are “conscious” actions. Prodigy. [;)]

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I think somebody who isn't genuinely passionate about something, will likely find it very hard to be doing focused practice. They can for sometime, however they'll get burnout quickly due to a lack of interest and a lot of effort ..

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ORIGINAL: metalhead

Don't you think deliberate practice be a consequence of genuine passion rather than a separate variable to become an expert? I think somebody who isn't genuinely passionate about something, will likely find it very hard to be doing focused practice. They can for sometime, however they'll get burnout quickly due to a lack of interest and a lot of effort ..