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the rehearsal that quietly rewires you until effort becomes instinct and instinct becomes you
means the act of doing or saying the same thing again, often many times, whether to practice, emphasize, or simply because it recurs.
from From Latin repetitio, a noun built on repetere, "to seek again" or "to attack again" — a fusion of re- ("again") and petere ("to aim at, reach toward, seek"). That same petere fathered a sprawling family: petition, appetite, compete, impetus — all of them straining toward something. Repetition is simply the reaching done over and over, until the hand learns the way by heart.
- brain wiring
- Myelin thickens around repeated neural pathways, hardening skill
- french double
- Repetition means rehearsal in French, not redundancy
- mere exposure
- We like things more simply from seeing them again
- spaced learning
- Repeating with gaps beats cramming for long memory
- propaganda fuel
- Repeated falsehoods feel truer, the illusory truth effect
beethoven's 9th symphony — the "ode to joy" section repeats the main melody 4 times with increasing orchestration
don mclean's american pie — the chorus repeats identically 8 times throughout the 8-minute song
steve reich's come out — 1966 phasing piece where two identical tape loops gradually drift out of sync