he historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle once noted:

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

If you don’t record your screw ups in your journal, you’re doing yourself a huge injustice. After all, if you’re not recognizing your shortcomings, then aren’t you admitting that you’re already as good as you need to be?

The Part VII discussion focused on doing just that, recording those things that you’re not executing correctly and using an observer to provide some objective feedback and identify those things you’re doing wrong. New officials, in particular, need to be observed, with bad mechanics identified early on. It’s just like with many other things in life: Learn something the wrong way, and it becomes that much more difficult to learn it the right way. That's because first you must unlearn the bad technique.

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