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

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…

- Daniel Coyle

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

- Daniel Coyle

Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

- Daniel Coyle

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…

- Daniel Coyle

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

- Daniel Coyle

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,…

- Daniel Coyle

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…

- Daniel Coyle

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…

- Daniel Coyle