We listened to an audio talk by Acharya Adam Lobel that looks at how we are always practicing. In it, he observes:

As human beings, no matter what we're doing, whether we think of ourselves as spiritual or not, whether we're part of a religion or not, whether we're engaged in deep psychological work or not - as humans, we're always practicing something. We are always practitioners. To be a human is to be a practitioner...we practice our life into existence.

Some of the ideas covered in the discussion included the way neuroscience backs up this idea ("neurons that fire together wire together"), that what we practice can have real and lasting effects on us and those around us, and questions around what modern smartphone practice might be reinforcing.