Top 29 Daniel Coyle Quotes
#1. Ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.
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#2. If you were to visit a dozen talent hotbeds tomorrow, you would be struck by how much time the learners spend observing top performers.
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#3. All the world's parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules: pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort. [Paraphrasing Carol Dweck, a psychologist who studies motivation]
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#4. One does not become a master coach by accident.
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#5. The sweet spot: that productive, uncomfortable terrain located just beyond our current abilities, where our reach exceeds our grasp. Deep practice is not simply about struggling; it's about seeking a particular struggle, which involves a cycle of distinct actions.
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#6. Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.
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#7. Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.
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#8. You will become clever through your mistakes. - German proverb
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#9. Skills are really just circuits in your brain
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#10. To get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.
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#11. Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.
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#12. Carol Dweck, the psychologist who studies motivation, likes to say that all the world's parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules: pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort.
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#13. I have always maintained that excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work. - Charles Darwin
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#15. Studies show that even a brief connection with a role model can vastly increase unconscious motivation.
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#16. Things that appear to be obstacles turn out to be desirable in the long haul," Bjork said. "One real encounter, even for a few seconds, is far more useful than several hundred observations.
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#17. Think of your windshield as an energy source for your brain. Use pictures (the walls of many talent hotbeds are cluttered with photos and posters of their stars) or, better, video. One idea: Bookmark a few YouTube videos, and watch them before you practice, or at night before you go to bed.
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#18. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time.
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#19. The blame lies with our brains. While they are really good at building circuits, they are awful at unbuilding them.
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#20. Repetition. "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts," he wrote in The Wisdom of Wooden.
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#21. Struggle is not an option: it's a biological requirement.
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#22. In the interest of clarity, we'll define talent in its strictest sense: the possession of repeatable skills that don't depend on physical size (sorry, jockeys and NFL linemen).
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#23. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. - Thomas Carruthers
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#25. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - W. B. Yeats
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#26. It's also why we've recently seen an avalanche of new studies, books, and video games built on the myelin-centric principle that practice staves off cognitive decline.
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#27. I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.
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#28. Feeling stupid is no fun. But being willing to be stupid - in other words, being willing to risk the emotional pain of making mistakes - is absolutely essential, because reaching, failing, and reaching again is the way your brain grows and forms new connections.
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#29. There is no substitute for attentive repetition.
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