Practice Makes Perfect

For the past few months Spider Solitaire - advanced level has been my go to play around with while I'm waiting for a page to load or just want to do something incredibly mindless thing. Part of what made it fun and not so serious was that I was somewhat sure that it was an impossible game to win unless you got dealt a perfect hand. Thus, it was absolutely pressure free, just me moving cards around and seeing how long I could go before losing.

And then I won. Surely a fluke. Until I won again a few weeks latter. And then again. And now I've won twice today, for a grand total of 6 wins (out of about 500 games). I think my hours and hours of practice may have actually made me good at this mindless game. Practice may actually have some bearing on success.

Sometimes I wonder how amazing of a lawyer I could be if I spent as much time studying as I did moving around imaginary cards on a screen.