The Little Book of Talent tips

  • Tip #3: Steal without apology

    Good artists borrow. Great artists steal

  • Tip #6: Choose Spartian over Luxurious

    Humble spaces help focus attention on the deep-practice task at hand

  • Tip #14: Take off your watch

    Deep practice is not measured in minutes but how many connections you form in your brain

  • Tip #15: Break every move into chunk
  • Tip #17: Embrace struggle

    Because no pain, no gain

  • Tip #22: Pay attention right after you made a mistake

    Take mistakes seriously, but never personally

  • Tip #27: Close your eyes
  • Tip #33: To learn from a book, close it

    Reading 10 pages once, then closing the book and write one-page of summary

  • Tip #34: Use the sandwich technique

    – make the correct move
    – make the incorrect move
    – make the correct move again

  • Tip #35: Use the 3×10 technique

    Practice 3 times, with 10-min breaks between each rep

  • Tip #38: Stop before you’re exhausted
  • Tip #41: End on a positive note
  • Tip #43: Embrace repetition

    I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times

  • Tip #49: When you get stuck, make a shift

    When it comes to developing talent, autopilot is the enermy. Change the way/order you complete tasks.

  • Tip #51: Keep your big goals secret

    Tellings others about your big goals makes them less likely to happen, because it creates an unconscious payoff – tricking our brain into thinking we’ve already accomplished the goal.

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