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 th….

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

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 m….

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

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 fo….

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,….

The sweet spot: that productive, uncomfortable terrain located just beyond our current abilities, where our reach exceeds our grasp. Deep practice is….

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. B….

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 t….

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 sm….

Skills are really just circuits in your brain.

Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect..

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

Baby steps are the royal road to skill..

There is no substitute for attentive repetition..

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

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 lac….