- 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.