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Top performers understand their field at a higher level than average performers do, and thus have a superior structure for remembering information about it.
Great performance is in our hands far more than most of us ever suspected.
What you really believe about the source of great performance thus becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve
Mozart's first work regarded today as a masterpiece, with its status confirmed by the number of recordings available, is his Piano Concerto No. 9, composed when he was twenty-one. That's certainly an early age, but we must remember that by then Wolfgang had been through eighteen years of extremely hard, expert training.
Tiger is born into the home of an expert golfer and confessed "golf addict" who loves to teach and is eager to begin teaching his new son as soon as possible.
As the shift in valuable skills continues, organizations are finding not only that they have no jobs for the disengaged and socially inept, but that such people are toxic to the enterprise and must be removed.
deliberate practice requires that one identify certain sharply defined elements of performance that need to be improved, and then work intently on them.
When top-level chess players look at a board, they see words, not letters. Instead of seeing twenty-five pieces, they may see just five or six groups of pieces. That's why it's easy for them to remember where all the pieces are.
In our own lives, we will try something new and, finding that it isn't easy for us, we conclude we don't have a talent for it.
We will achieve freatness only through an enormous amount of hard work over many years.
Avoiding automaticity through continual practice is another way of saying that great performers are always getting better. This is why the most devoted can stay at the top of their field for far longer than most people would think possible.
Landing on your butt twenty thousand times is where great performance comes from.
The cash held by US companies are hitting all time records. Companies are using some of this money to buy back their own stock at record rates. When a company is doing this it is saying to it's investors: We don't have any good ideas what to do with this, so here--maybe you do.
The best computer programmers are much better than novices at remembering the overall structure of programs because they understand better what they're intended to do and how.
you learn ten times more in a crisis than during normal times.
