Daniel Coyle quotes

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)
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. View quote
Daniel Coyle
The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one. View quote
Daniel Coyle
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. View quote
Daniel Coyle
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. View quote
Daniel Coyle
Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals. View quote
Daniel Coyle

Daniel Coyle

Occupation: Writer
Quotes count: 6

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