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“Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and start again. Slowly, and a little painfully, you explore the space over and over, attending to errors, extending your reach into the room a bit farther each time, building a mental map until you can move through it quickly and intuitively.”
― The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
― The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways—operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes—makes you smarter. Or to put it a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them—as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go—end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.”
― The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
― The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
“That’s what you were trying to say, isn’t it? I mean, I think … mostly we’re too busy living to stop and notice we’re alive. But that sometimes we do. And that that makes the rest of it matter.”
― Death: The Time of Your Life
― Death: The Time of Your Life
“Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, for this wide world has no greater wonder.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“Deep practice, however, doesn't obey the same math. Spending more time is effective—but only if you're still in the sweet spot at the edge of your capabilities, attentively building and honing circuits. What's more, there seems to be a universal limit for how much deep practice human beings can do in a day. Ericsson's research shows that most world-class experts—including pianists, chess players, novelists, and athletes—practice between three and five hours a day, no matter what skill they pursue.”
― The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
― The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
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