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

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,….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

Baby steps are the royal road to skill..

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect..

There is no substitute for attentive repetition..

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

Skills are really just circuits in your brain.