“The reason that most people don’t possess these extraordinary physical capabilities isn’t because they don’t have the capacity for them, but rather because they’re satisfied to live in the comfortable rut of homeostasis and never do the work that is required to get out of it. They live in the world of “good enough.” The same thing is true for all the mental activities we engage in,”
― Peak: How to Master Almost Anything
― Peak: How to Master Almost Anything
“Anyone can improve, but it requires the right approach. If you are not improving, it’s not because you lack innate talent; it’s because you’re not practicing the right way. Once you understand this, improvement becomes a matter of figuring out what the “right way” is.”
― Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
― Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
“She was like the revolutionist at fifty: not afraid of death, but bored by the probability of bad steaks and bad breaths and sitting up all night on windy barricades.”
― Main Street
― Main Street
“Studies of expert performers tell us that once you have practiced for a while and can see the results, the skill itself can become part of your motivation. You take pride in what you do, you get pleasure from your friends’ compliments, and your sense of identity changes. You begin to see yourself as a public speaker or a piccolo player or a maker of origami figures. As long as you recognize this new identity as flowing from the many hours of practice that you devoted to developing your skill, further practice comes to feel more like an investment than an expense.”
― Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
― Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
“And now to work. Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.”
― Psmith, Journalist
― Psmith, Journalist
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