Category: Commandment 11: Record Yourself

Ever heard, “This conversation may be recorded for quality assurance or training purposes'' when you call a company on the phone? Key word there – recorded. Most successful businesses keep detailed records of all of their transactions and processes, even down to customer conversations, for possible analysis after the fact.

Pilots record their sessions in flight simulators, and every flight’s travel data and transmissions are recorded in what’s famously known as the ‘black box’ (even though they’re usually orange), in order to analyze pilot and flight successes and failures after the fact.

Every successful sports team and player, when serious about true mastery, spends more time watching ‘game tape’ than they do on the field.

Golfers use video recorders to analyze their swings.

One of the first skills chess players learn is to record their moves after each and every move they make.

All of these highly successful people and organizations do this because recording has an incredible slew of benefits, which span many of our previous 10 commandments.

To be a successful piper, recording yourself should be (at least a small) part of every practice session.