Is speed more important than accuracy? Give an example.
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The question I was asked at Toastmasters this week: is speed more important than accuracy?
I argue that there is a time for each. And it’s expensive, or takes a lot of practice and preparation, to have both at once. Speed, cost, quality — pick two.
But reflecting on many years of studying and doing software development, and also practicing music – I have a suggestion: go slow first, build the foundation of accuracy, then let the speed come naturally over time.
What’s your take? 🎹
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Geoff
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Fellow speech club members, Toastmasters — the question that I was asked is, “Is speed more important than accuracy? Give an example.”
This is an interesting question. I think there is a time for speed and a time for accuracy, and it’s very challenging to have both at the same time.
There’s a famous saying that in business you can pick speed, low cost, or good quality — but you can only pick two of the three. It’s very hard to find a business that will do good quality, very quickly, for a low cost. It comes down to the trade-offs between the different goals.
If you want to go really fast and do something quickly, it’s likely that you may miss something in your consideration, or forget to think about certain parts of it. But again, if you want to do something really accurately, it’s hard to do that fast.
But as a musician, I notice that if I practice playing piano a lot, I can eventually play a song quickly — at very high speed, like a Mozart sonata or something like that — and I’ll be able to play it very quickly, also with high accuracy. But that’s only if I practice a lot: first going slowly, and then gradually speeding it up over time, working on all the different pieces and putting them all together.
So that’s my answer. Thank you.
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