Quotes About Mastery

Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that's exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands….

Ericsson notes that for a novice, somewhere around an hour a day of intense concentration seems to be a limit, while for experts this number can expand to as many as four hours—but rarely more.

The good news about deliberate practice is that it will push you past this plateau and into a realm where you have little competition.

If your goal is to love what you do, you must first build up "career capital" by mastering rare and valuable skills, and then cash in this capital for the traits that define great work.

To do it right, it is the most complicated thing I know how to make," Furrer explains. "And it's that challenge that drives me. I don't need a sword. But I have to make them.

Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.

Don't follow your passion; rather, let it follow you in your quest to become, in the words of my favorite Steve Martin quote, "so good that they can't ignore you.

the differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance in a specific domain." American

If you go after more control in your working life without a rare and valuable skill to offer in return, you're likely pursuing a mirage.

Be disciple of depth in shallow world.

Deep work is at a severe disadvantage in a technopoly because it builds on values like quality, craftsmanship, and mastery that are decidedly old-fashioned and nontechnological. Even worse, to support deep work often requires the rejection of much of what is new and high-tech.

Se tan bueno que no puedan ignorarte.

Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable. I like the term "stretch" for describing what deliberate practice feels like,

Conclusion #3: Passion Is a Side Effect of Mastery

Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed. Let's

Sertillanges seems to have been ahead of his time, arguing in The Intellectual Life, "Men of genius themselves were great only by bringing all their power to bear on the point on which they had decided to show their full measure." Ericsson couldn't have said it better.)

You have to get good before you can expect good work. As

If you're not focusing on becoming so good they can't ignore you, you're going to be left behind.

I keep a tally of the total number of hours I've spent that month in a state of deliberate practice.

It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.

The point of providing these details is to emphasize that intelligent machines are complicated and hard to master.* To join the group of those who can work well with these machines, therefore, requires that you hone your ability to master hard things. And because these technologies change rapidly, this process of mastering hard things never ends: You must be able to do it quickly, again and again.

Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable.

Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that's exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands…. Deliberate practice is above all an effort of focus and concentration. That is what makes it "deliberate," as distinct from the mindless playing of scales or hitting of tennis balls that most people engage in. If

we argue that the differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance in a specific domain.