Quotes About Mastery

The process of learning an art can be divided conveniently into two parts: one, the mastery of the theory; the other, the mastery of the practice.

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

A professional wasnt a proffesional before he started learning the proffesion.

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it[...] Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. Once a child starts to excel at something—whether it's math, piano, pitching or ballet—he or she gets praise, admiration and satisfaction. This builds confidence and makes the once not-fun activity fun.

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and

that one thing I have control over? That shit is mine.

This is a fundamental truth about any sort of practice: If you never push yourself beyond your comfort zone, you will never improve.

Learning isn't a way of reaching one's potential but rather a way of developing it.

A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction.

With deliberate practice, however, the goal is not just to reach your potential but to build it, to make things possible that were not possible before.

Purposeful practice has well-defined, specific goals.

The hallmark of purposeful or deliberate practice is that you try to do something you cannot do — that takes you out of your comfort zone — and that you practice it over and over again, focusing on exactly how you are doing it, where you are falling short, and how you can get better.

Purposeful practice requires getting out of one's comfort zone. This is perhaps the most important part of purposeful practice.

The key thing is to take that general goal—get better—and turn it into something specific that you can work on with a realistic expectation of improvement.

What is the exact nature of the ability? and, What sorts of training made it possible? In thirty years of looking, I have never found an ability that could not be explained by answering these two questions.

meaning aids memory.

abilities gradually deteriorate in the absence of deliberate efforts to improve. So

Learning isn't a way of reaching one's potential but rather a way of developing it. We

We can shape our own potential. Art

Purposeful practice involves feedback. You have to know whether you are doing something right and, if not, how you're going wrong.

as the number of bytes in your random-access memory (RAM)

The main purpose of deliberate practice is to develop effective mental representations, and, as we will discuss shortly, mental representations in turn play a key role in deliberate practice.

If all you want to do is to safely drive your car from point A to point B or to play the piano well enough to plink out "Für Elise," then this approach to learning is all you need.