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Old Wed Aug 30, 2006, 02:14am
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What works for one person certainly may not work for another. And plenty of people have become talented and successful officials without keeping a game journal.

I will make two observations, however. First, in nearly every area of life where people look to improve, the people I know who keep some kind of journal generally progress faster than those who don't. Second, as regards those who say they have no problem remembering their mistakes, sure we all remember the ones that hurt. For a while. But without the benefit of a journal, they honestly have no way to know how much or how little they actually remember.

I will say that I suspect keeping a game journal, for improvement purposes, is probably more beneficial early in an official's career than later on. But I haven't gotten to the later on part yet to know for sure
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