Thomas M. Sterner

Was a concert piano technician and a golfer, and wrote a short book about the thing both disciplines require and nobody teaches.

The Practicing Mind argues that we are trained to value the finished result and to treat the process as an obstacle, which makes practice unbearable and progress invisible. Shifting the goal to the process itself removes the frustration, because the process is always available and the result never is. It is a slim book that repeats itself, and the repetition is arguably the method.