Daniel Coyle Quotes

• You have to be willing to stop and fix. Deep practice requires a willingness to do what many of us find uncomfortable: to admit to our errors, and focus on them.

  Daniel Coyle

  Focus, Uncomfortable, Willingness

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A true leader is someone who maximizes the potential of their people; who ignites their passions and gives them the opportunity to make the most of their gifts in the service of a larger goal. The leaders I met at the talent hotbeds embodied those values.

  Daniel Coyle

  Passion, Opportunity, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There is no substitute for attentive repetition.

  Daniel Coyle

  Substitutes, Repetition

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• Failure is not a verdict; making mistakes is the price of the ticket.

  Daniel Coyle

  Mistake, Making Mistakes

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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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.

  Daniel Coyle

  Moving, Dark, Thinking

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• 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.

  Daniel Coyle

  Skills, Looks, Might

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• To sum up: it's time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.

  Daniel Coyle

  Practice, Perfect, Truth Is

  Daniel Coyle (2010). “The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown”, p.44, Random House

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• The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

  Daniel Coyle

  Energy, Building, Habit

  Daniel Coyle (2012). “The Little Book of Talent”, p.46, Random House

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• 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.

  Daniel Coyle

  Sweet, Struggle, Practice

  Daniel Coyle (2010). “The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown”, p.92, Random House

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• Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

  Daniel Coyle

  Baby, Skills, Royal

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• 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 in 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.

  Daniel Coyle

  Inspirational, Mistake, Struggle

  "The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown". Book by Daniel Coyle, 2010.

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• Skills are really just circuits in your brain

  Daniel Coyle

  Skills, Brain, Circuits

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• 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.

  Daniel Coyle

  Heart, Energy, Tasks

  Daniel Coyle, Tyler Hamilton (2012). “The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs”, p.19, Random House

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• Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.

  Daniel Coyle

  Practice, Perfect, Practice Makes Perfect

  "Practice makes perfect?". "All in the Mind", www.abc.net.au. November 5, 2011.

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• The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

  Daniel Coyle

  Baby, Practice, Skills

  Daniel Coyle (2010). “The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown”, p.94, Random House

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• Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.

  Daniel Coyle

  Skills, Signals, Insulation

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• I fall in love with certain stories. Those stories tend to be connected to my life some way - for instance, with my first book I was writing about the experience of coaching Little League in the Chicago inner city. But the common thread tends to be exploring some kind of mystery. Simple questions that spiral deeper.

  Daniel Coyle

  Falling In Love, Book, Writing

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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