[Zetice]

Super duper no, could not more strongly disagree. Practice is not the same as performance, as in practice you ignore the outcome and focus on specific aspects of your skill.

If you practice with the full outcome in mind all the time, you severely hinder your ability to narrowly improve, which is critical to growth.

I understand this is written to speak more about “practice” in the trade sense, but even there I think that’s wrong.

[Baeocystin]

Right there with you. If I am practicing something, it is usually a specific aspect of the overall skill. A certain aspect of form while I row, a specific approach to shading with a pencil, a certain hand position as I work on a difficult guitar piece... some element of the larger whole that is given my full attention for that session.

If I only ever had the full sequence of $whatever in mind, I would severely limit my growth.