Quotes About Progress

Give a mediocre idea to a good team, and they'll find a way to make it better. The goal needs to be to get the team right, get them moving in the right direction, and get them to see where they are making mistakes and where they are succeeding.

The truth is, when you are starting out, you do not "play" tennis; you struggle and fight and pay attention and slowly get better. The truth is, we learn in staggering-baby steps. Effort-based language works because it speaks directly to the core of the learning experience, and when it comes to ignition, there's nothing more powerful.

One of the best measures of any group's culture is its learning velocity—how quickly it improves its performance of a new skill.

The effect of this first phase of learning seemed to be to get the learner involved, captivated, hooked, and to get the learner to need and want more information and expertise.

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

The pattern seemed to hold: the youngest kids were frequently the fastest runners. It became more interesting when I broadened the sample group slightly.

Ignition and deep practice work together to produce skill in exactly the same way that a gas tank combines with an engine to produce velocity in an automobile

As Wooden also said, "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts.

The trick is to choose a goal just beyond your present abilities; to target the struggle. Thrashing blindly doesn't help. Reaching does.

they suck, and it's also where they start to not suck.

Building habits of group vulnerability is like building a muscle. It takes time, repetition, and the willingness to feel pain in order to achieve gains. And as with building muscle, the first key is to approach the process with a plan.

All our movies suck at first," Catmull says. "The BrainTrust is where we figure out why they suck, and it's also where they start to not suck.

purposely operating at the edges of their ability, so they will screw up. And somehow screwing up is making them better.

No time plus no space equals better skills.

You will become clever through your mistakes.

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.

Things that appear to be obstacles turn out to be desirable in the long haul

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

City burning, in other words, was becoming something of a science.

I am currently learning how to work the blasted technology of this infuriating dominant culture. If this was the neolithic i'd still be all boss!

I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction.

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. ERIC HOFFER

Tiny habits are the smallest things you can do that will make the biggest difference in your life.

The frontal lobe is the recent addition to the human brain that allows us to imagine the future.