I will give you two examples. You still have to write your own compositions
There is a calligrapher who teaches students how to practice calligraphy. Once, a student who often used old newspapers to practice calligraphy reported that he had been studying with calligraphers for a long time, but he had not made much progress. The calligrapher said to him: "You may try to use the best paper, you may write better." The student did as he said. Sure enough, it didn't take long for his handwriting to improve rapidly. He asked the calligrapher strangely what the reason was. The calligrapher said: "Because when you write with old newspapers, you always feel like you are making a draft. It doesn't matter even if you don't write well, so you can't concentrate completely; but with the best paper, you will feel distressed if you write badly, so you will feel distressed." If you concentrate on writing, your writing will certainly improve."
——Concentrate on it
There once was a chess expert named Qiu, and his chess skills were very superb.
Qiu had two students who were learning to play chess with him. One of the students was very focused on studying with the teacher. The other one is not like this. He thinks that learning to play chess is easy and there is no need to take it seriously. When the teacher was explaining, although he was sitting there with his eyes looking at the chess pieces, he was thinking in his heart: "It would be great if I could shoot a swan goose in the wild now and have a delicious meal." Because he was always thinking wildly
, I didn’t listen to the teacher’s explanation at all.
As a result, although the two students were taught by the same famous teacher, one made rapid progress and became a famous chess player, while the other did not learn any skills.