Practise makes perfect?

Yesterday I attended a course on how to write a funding proposal. It’s is not the first time I have attended a course on how to write a funding proposal. I knew it was a box ticking exercise in order to secure organisation’s financing, so I went along, just to play the game, because it was a prerequisite of gaining other information from them.
I was intrigued. I expected to maybe meet some nice people, feel a little ‘superior’ perhaps because I had done this several times over, for differing reasons, and exit asap.
What actually occurred was something very different. The course was fast paced as there was a lot to fit in to that two hours. And guess what? I learnt new things……
In fact I was very glad I had gone along with some knowledge because, had that been the first time I had encountered a cash flow forecast, at that breakneck speed, I might have panicked and quit!
So instead I entered the session with a good knowledge of my sector and a solid foundation of previous proposals. With these two things in place I was open and ready to add new information to my existing knowledge…..
So just because I had done something similar before, it did not automatically mean I already knew it all……. The re-visit was valuable.
Who knew that repetition could help my development? What is it they say “practise makes perfect…..”?
Who knew! 

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