"The very fastest typists achieve their advantage by looking farther ahead in the text, which enables them to keep moving their fingers into place for the next keystroke just a little bit ahead of time (and, in particular, to hit successive letter types with opposite hands especially fast, which is their most effective way of outrunning average typists). When researchers prevented top typists from looking farther ahead in the text, they performed scarcely better than novices." - Geoff Colvin
(For the record, I made about ten mistakes when typing that.)
What an accidental parable! How often do we lock our attention into the letter of the moment, failing to look a few words ahead? Those words hold promise, lie beyond the petty worries of today's possible failures, and bring greater success through preparation.
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