-Some drills would be good for all and some drills would be good for just certain players.
-Some drills must be done every single day of the year.
-The pressure I created during practices may have exceeded that which opponents produced.
-Reviewing and analyzing everything. Details, details... Develop a love for details. They usually accompany success.
-Having beliefs and standing up for them go to the issue of character.
-Nobody is bigger than the team. Nobody!
-Talent is God-given: be humble.
Fame is man-given: be thankful
Conceit is self-given: be careful
-What is your offer?
If I say yes, it is final.
If I say no, it is final too.
-Leaders must always generate enthusiasm.
-There is something going on around us at all times from which we can acquire knowledge if we are alert. Be observing constantly, quick to spot a weakness and correct it or use it, as the case may warrant.
-Initiative is the courage to make decisions and take action.
-You must believe in yourself if you expect others to believe in you.
-Competitive greatness is to be at your best when your best is needed.
-If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?
-The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do for themselves. Abraham Lincoln.
-Never make excuses.
-Material things are not gifts but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-Forget favors given. Remember those received.
Friday, September 29, 2017
Wooden. Quotes V
-Don't compare yourself to somebody else, especially materially.
-We get stronger when we test ourselves.
-The final score is not the final score.
-It is better to travel hopefully that arrive. R. L. Stevenson.
-In great attempt it is glorious even to fail.
-There is no area of basketball in which I am a genius. None. Tactically and strategically I am just average, and this is not offering false modesty. We won championships because I was above average in analyzing players, getting them to fill roles as part of a team, paying attention to fundamentals and details, and working well with others.
-I loved all my players. I did not like them all, but I did love them all.
-The privilege of practicing had been taken away. It was the worst punishment of all: Gentlemen, practice is over.
-We were better off letting our opponents try to figure us out than spending time trying to figure them out. We focused on preparing for any eventuality rather than a particular style of play from a particular team.
-I never wanted to call the first time out during a game.
-There is very little difference in technical knowledge about the game of basketball among most experienced coaches. However, there is a vast difference between leaders in their ability to teach and to motivate those under their supervision.
-I wanted my players to display style and class in both victory and defeat.
-I used the bench to teach.
-We get stronger when we test ourselves.
-The final score is not the final score.
-It is better to travel hopefully that arrive. R. L. Stevenson.
-In great attempt it is glorious even to fail.
-There is no area of basketball in which I am a genius. None. Tactically and strategically I am just average, and this is not offering false modesty. We won championships because I was above average in analyzing players, getting them to fill roles as part of a team, paying attention to fundamentals and details, and working well with others.
-I loved all my players. I did not like them all, but I did love them all.
-The privilege of practicing had been taken away. It was the worst punishment of all: Gentlemen, practice is over.
-We were better off letting our opponents try to figure us out than spending time trying to figure them out. We focused on preparing for any eventuality rather than a particular style of play from a particular team.
-I never wanted to call the first time out during a game.
-There is very little difference in technical knowledge about the game of basketball among most experienced coaches. However, there is a vast difference between leaders in their ability to teach and to motivate those under their supervision.
-I wanted my players to display style and class in both victory and defeat.
-I used the bench to teach.
Wooden. Quotes IV
-Neatness and courtesy make you feel good about yourself. And when you feel good about yourself you are more productive.
-9 promises that can bring happiness
1. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible.
2. Make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.
3. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best in yourself and others.
4. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
5. Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
6. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future.
7. Wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.
8. Give so much to improving yourself that you have not time to criticize others.
9. Be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, too happy to permit trouble to press on you.
-Losing is only temporary. Study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again.
-I believe we were more successful in some years when we did not win a championship than in some years when we did.
-The real competitors love a tough situation. That is when they focus better and function better. At moments of maximum pressure, they want the ball.
-Often great competitors don't quite have the physical skills of more gifted players, but they get more out of what they have at moments of great pressure.
-I base my judgment on not just what they had but how they used it.
-Work creates luck.
-Adversity often produces the unexpected opportunity. Look for it. Appreciate and utilize it.
-A true athlete should have character, not be a character.
-Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but rather by what you should have accomplished with you abilities.
-9 promises that can bring happiness
1. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible.
2. Make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.
3. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best in yourself and others.
4. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
5. Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
6. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future.
7. Wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.
8. Give so much to improving yourself that you have not time to criticize others.
9. Be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, too happy to permit trouble to press on you.
-Losing is only temporary. Study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again.
-I believe we were more successful in some years when we did not win a championship than in some years when we did.
-The real competitors love a tough situation. That is when they focus better and function better. At moments of maximum pressure, they want the ball.
-Often great competitors don't quite have the physical skills of more gifted players, but they get more out of what they have at moments of great pressure.
-I base my judgment on not just what they had but how they used it.
-Work creates luck.
-Adversity often produces the unexpected opportunity. Look for it. Appreciate and utilize it.
-A true athlete should have character, not be a character.
-Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but rather by what you should have accomplished with you abilities.
Wooden. Quotes III
-I know many eminently successful people who never made a lot of money and never gained any high position or recognition. They simply and quietly raised a family, worked hard, and had a job that allowed them to take care of their family. These individuals and their families are a big success by my definition.
-The journey is better than the inn.
-The preparation is where success is truly found.
-The outcome of a game was simply a by-product of the effort we made to prepare.
-Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
-You can make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming others for those mistakes.
-I have never gone into a game thinking we were going to lose. Never. Even though there have been games where the experts said there was no way we could win.
-What do you believe in? Are you willing to stand up for it despite what others may think or say?
-Never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.
-Details create success.
-What joy can be derived from overcoming someone who is not as capable as you are?
-I don't care if you are tall, but I do care if you play tall.
-No matter how much they accumulate, they never achieve peace of mind because they want more.
-Eight suggestions for succeeding:
1. Fear no opponent. Respect every opponent.
2. It's the perfection of the smallest details that make big things happen.
3. Hustle makes up for many a mistake.
4. Be more interested in character than reputation
5. Be quick, but don't hurry.
6. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.
7. Valid self-analysis is crucial for improvement.
8. There is no substitute for hard work and careful planning. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
-The journey is better than the inn.
-The preparation is where success is truly found.
-The outcome of a game was simply a by-product of the effort we made to prepare.
-Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
-You can make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming others for those mistakes.
-I have never gone into a game thinking we were going to lose. Never. Even though there have been games where the experts said there was no way we could win.
-What do you believe in? Are you willing to stand up for it despite what others may think or say?
-Never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.
-Details create success.
-What joy can be derived from overcoming someone who is not as capable as you are?
-I don't care if you are tall, but I do care if you play tall.
-No matter how much they accumulate, they never achieve peace of mind because they want more.
-Eight suggestions for succeeding:
1. Fear no opponent. Respect every opponent.
2. It's the perfection of the smallest details that make big things happen.
3. Hustle makes up for many a mistake.
4. Be more interested in character than reputation
5. Be quick, but don't hurry.
6. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.
7. Valid self-analysis is crucial for improvement.
8. There is no substitute for hard work and careful planning. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
Lucy. By William Wordsworth
LUCY.
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! —Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Wooden. Quotes II
-You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.
-Family is first. Always. Always.
-Show leadership. Show discipline. Show industriousness. Have traditional values. The person you are is the person your child will become.
-Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are.
-Learn as if you were going to live forever and live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
-There is nothing wrong with having faults so long as you work conscientiously to correct them.
-No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
-You often find what you are looking for.
-If you think too much about the pursuit of material things, you are going to hurt those youngsters you are working so hard to buy material things for.
-Happiness is in may things. It's in love. It's in sharing. But most of all, it's in being at peace with yourself knowing that you are making the effort, the full effort, to do what is right.
-True happiness comes from the things that cannot be taken away from you.
-Blaming somebody else, it's weakness.
-Six ways to bring out the best in people:
1. Keep courtesy and consideration for others foremost in your mind, at home and away.
2. Try to have fun without trying to be funny.
3. While you cannot control what happens to you, you can control how you react. Make good manners an automatic reaction.
4. Seek individual opportunities to offer a genuine compliment.
5. Sincerity, optimism, and enthusiasm are more welcome than sarcasm, pessimism, and laziness.
6. Laugh with others, never at them.
-I have prepared for death all of my life by the life I lived. Socrates.
-And now, like Socrates, I have no fear of death. When it comes I can be with her again.
-Family is first. Always. Always.
-Show leadership. Show discipline. Show industriousness. Have traditional values. The person you are is the person your child will become.
-Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are.
-Learn as if you were going to live forever and live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
-There is nothing wrong with having faults so long as you work conscientiously to correct them.
-No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
-You often find what you are looking for.
-If you think too much about the pursuit of material things, you are going to hurt those youngsters you are working so hard to buy material things for.
-Happiness is in may things. It's in love. It's in sharing. But most of all, it's in being at peace with yourself knowing that you are making the effort, the full effort, to do what is right.
-True happiness comes from the things that cannot be taken away from you.
-Blaming somebody else, it's weakness.
-Six ways to bring out the best in people:
1. Keep courtesy and consideration for others foremost in your mind, at home and away.
2. Try to have fun without trying to be funny.
3. While you cannot control what happens to you, you can control how you react. Make good manners an automatic reaction.
4. Seek individual opportunities to offer a genuine compliment.
5. Sincerity, optimism, and enthusiasm are more welcome than sarcasm, pessimism, and laziness.
6. Laugh with others, never at them.
-I have prepared for death all of my life by the life I lived. Socrates.
-And now, like Socrates, I have no fear of death. When it comes I can be with her again.
Wooden. Quotes
-Games actually seemed like they happened in a slower gear because of the pace at which we practiced.
-When four guys touched the ball in two seconds and the fifth guy hit a lay-up, man, what a feeling!. Bill Walton.
-The real competition he was preparing us for was life. Bill Walton.
-He discouraged expressing emotion on the court, stressing that it would eventually leave us vulnerable to opponents.
-Two sets of threes:
1. Never lie.
2. Never cheat.
3. Never steal.
1. Don't whine.
2. Don't complain.
3. Don't make excuses.
-Seven things to do:
1. Be true to yourself.
2. Help others.
3. Make each day your masterpiece.
4. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible.
5. Make friendship a fine art.
6. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
7. Pray for guidance and count and give thanks for you blessings every day.
-Never believe you are better than anybody else, but remember that you are just as good as everybody else.
-We disagreed but we were never disagreeable.
-Love means many things. It means giving. It means sharing. It means forgiving. It means understanding. It means being patient. It means learning. And you must always consider the other side, the other person.
-The best thing a man can do for this children is to love their mother. Abraham Lincoln.
-When four guys touched the ball in two seconds and the fifth guy hit a lay-up, man, what a feeling!. Bill Walton.
-The real competition he was preparing us for was life. Bill Walton.
-He discouraged expressing emotion on the court, stressing that it would eventually leave us vulnerable to opponents.
-Two sets of threes:
1. Never lie.
2. Never cheat.
3. Never steal.
1. Don't whine.
2. Don't complain.
3. Don't make excuses.
-Seven things to do:
1. Be true to yourself.
2. Help others.
3. Make each day your masterpiece.
4. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible.
5. Make friendship a fine art.
6. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
7. Pray for guidance and count and give thanks for you blessings every day.
-Never believe you are better than anybody else, but remember that you are just as good as everybody else.
-We disagreed but we were never disagreeable.
-Love means many things. It means giving. It means sharing. It means forgiving. It means understanding. It means being patient. It means learning. And you must always consider the other side, the other person.
-The best thing a man can do for this children is to love their mother. Abraham Lincoln.
Monday, September 18, 2017
Grit by Angela Duckworth
-Have a fierce resolve in everything you do. Demonstrate determination, resiliency, and tenacity. Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses. Use mistakes and problems as opportunities to get better, not reasons to quit.
-Talent is common; what you invest to develop that talent is the critical final measure of greatness.
-If you want to create a great culture, you have to have a collection of core values that everyone lives.
-Each year that you play soccer for Anson Dorrance, you must memorize three different literary quotes, each handpicked to communicate a different core value. You will be tested in front of the team in pre-season and then tested again in every player conference. Not only do you have to memorize them, but you have to understand them. So reflect on them as well.
-It was not so much the physical challenges as the mental toughness required to cope with all the yelling and screaming.
-If you create a vision for yourself and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life.
-It is really the guy across from us that makes us who we are. Our opponent creates challenges that help us become our best selves.
-The social multiplier effect: one person's grit enhances the grit of the others.
-John Wooden: Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
-Always compete. You are either competing or you are not. Compete in everything you do. . Finish strong. Positive self-talk. Team first.
-Two key factors promote excellence in individuals and in teams: deep and rich support and relentless challenge to improve.
-No whining. No complaining. No excuses. Always protect the team. Be early.
-Talent is common; what you invest to develop that talent is the critical final measure of greatness.
-If you want to create a great culture, you have to have a collection of core values that everyone lives.
-Each year that you play soccer for Anson Dorrance, you must memorize three different literary quotes, each handpicked to communicate a different core value. You will be tested in front of the team in pre-season and then tested again in every player conference. Not only do you have to memorize them, but you have to understand them. So reflect on them as well.
-It was not so much the physical challenges as the mental toughness required to cope with all the yelling and screaming.
-If you create a vision for yourself and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life.
-It is really the guy across from us that makes us who we are. Our opponent creates challenges that help us become our best selves.
-The social multiplier effect: one person's grit enhances the grit of the others.
-John Wooden: Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
-Always compete. You are either competing or you are not. Compete in everything you do. . Finish strong. Positive self-talk. Team first.
-Two key factors promote excellence in individuals and in teams: deep and rich support and relentless challenge to improve.
-No whining. No complaining. No excuses. Always protect the team. Be early.
Teddy Roosevelt Quote on Bravery
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who point out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes VI
-Grit is forged in the crucible of adversity.
-First to practice and last to leave.
-Once you commit, you discipline yourself to do it. There is going to be times you don't want to go, but you have to go.
-I am giving you all I got.
-Go and follow your dreams and if they don't work out, then you can reassess.
-When you really do what you really want to do, it becomes a vocation.
-Children need freedom but also need limits.
-When our parents are loving, respectful and demanding, we not only follow their example , we revere it.
- I overcame situations slightly outside my comfort zone through trial and error, through doing... and I succeeded.
-Most people are born with tremendous potential. The real question is whether they are encouraged to employ the good old-fashioned hard work and their grit to its maximum. In the end, those are the people who seem to be the most successful.
-What poor kids need is a decent childhood.
-The Hard Thing Rule:
1. Everyone has to do a hard thing.
2. You can quit but not on a bad day. Only at the end of the term, or season.
3. You get to pick your hard thing.
-The real way to to become a great swimmer is to join a great team.
-If I am in a crowd of people doing things a certain way, I follow along.
-The source of our strength is the person we know ourselves to be.
-Doctors told him he might never walk again. You don't know me. Tom replied.
-Failures are going to happen, and how you deal with them may be the most important thing in whether you succeed. You need fierce resolve. You need to take responsibility. You call it grit. I call it fortitude.
-What do you look for in your leadership team? Capability, character, how they treat people. Would I let them run the business without me? Would I let my kids work for them?
-First to practice and last to leave.
-Once you commit, you discipline yourself to do it. There is going to be times you don't want to go, but you have to go.
-I am giving you all I got.
-Go and follow your dreams and if they don't work out, then you can reassess.
-When you really do what you really want to do, it becomes a vocation.
-Children need freedom but also need limits.
-When our parents are loving, respectful and demanding, we not only follow their example , we revere it.
- I overcame situations slightly outside my comfort zone through trial and error, through doing... and I succeeded.
-Most people are born with tremendous potential. The real question is whether they are encouraged to employ the good old-fashioned hard work and their grit to its maximum. In the end, those are the people who seem to be the most successful.
-What poor kids need is a decent childhood.
-The Hard Thing Rule:
1. Everyone has to do a hard thing.
2. You can quit but not on a bad day. Only at the end of the term, or season.
3. You get to pick your hard thing.
-The real way to to become a great swimmer is to join a great team.
-If I am in a crowd of people doing things a certain way, I follow along.
-The source of our strength is the person we know ourselves to be.
-Doctors told him he might never walk again. You don't know me. Tom replied.
-Failures are going to happen, and how you deal with them may be the most important thing in whether you succeed. You need fierce resolve. You need to take responsibility. You call it grit. I call it fortitude.
-What do you look for in your leadership team? Capability, character, how they treat people. Would I let them run the business without me? Would I let my kids work for them?
Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes V
-What do these grit paragons have in common? Daily rituals. Hours and hours of solitary deliberate practice.
-Purpose means the intention to contribute to the well-being of others.
-Pleasure is moderately important no matter how gritty you are.
-Higher scores on purpose correlate with higher scores on the Grit scale.
-Purpose is a tremendously powerful source of motivation.
-How you see your work is more important that your job title.
-Michael's passion is well-being through mindfulness. It took him years to integrate his personal interest in mindfulness with the other-centered purpose of helping people lead healthier, happier lives. Only when interest and purpose melded did he feel like he was doing what he had been put on this planet to do.
-Leaders and employees who keep both personal and prosocial interests in mind do better in the long run than those who are 100 percent selfishly motivated.
-It is not suffering that leads to hopelessness. It is suffering you think you can't control.
-I got up again and kept fighting.
-Optimists are just as likely to encounter bad events as pessimists. Where they diverge is in their explanations: optimists habitually search for temporary and specific causes of their suffering, whereas pessimists assume permanent and pervasive causes are to blame.
-I don't think in terms of disappointment. Everything that happens is something I can learn from.
-She suspected it was not just a long string of failures that made these children pessimistic, but rather their core beliefs about success and learning.
-They learned to interpret failure as a cue to try harder rather than as confirmation that they lacked the ability to succeed.
-People develop theories about themselves and the world, and it determines what they do.
-When you have setbacks and failures, you can't overreact to them. You need to step back, analyze them, and learn from them. But you also need to stay optimistic.
-Keep working hard and learning, and it will all work out.
-If you experience adversity that you overcome on your own during your youth, you develop a different way of dealing with adversity later on.
-Intelligence, or any other talent, can improve with effort. The brain changes itself when you struggle to master a new challenge.
-Rhonda eventually earned a PhD in mathematics and, after seventy-nine of her eighty applications for a faculty position were rejected, she took a job at the single university that made her an offer.
-You actually develop the ability to do mathematics. Don't give up!
-Purpose means the intention to contribute to the well-being of others.
-Pleasure is moderately important no matter how gritty you are.
-Higher scores on purpose correlate with higher scores on the Grit scale.
-Purpose is a tremendously powerful source of motivation.
-How you see your work is more important that your job title.
-Michael's passion is well-being through mindfulness. It took him years to integrate his personal interest in mindfulness with the other-centered purpose of helping people lead healthier, happier lives. Only when interest and purpose melded did he feel like he was doing what he had been put on this planet to do.
-Leaders and employees who keep both personal and prosocial interests in mind do better in the long run than those who are 100 percent selfishly motivated.
-It is not suffering that leads to hopelessness. It is suffering you think you can't control.
-I got up again and kept fighting.
-Optimists are just as likely to encounter bad events as pessimists. Where they diverge is in their explanations: optimists habitually search for temporary and specific causes of their suffering, whereas pessimists assume permanent and pervasive causes are to blame.
-I don't think in terms of disappointment. Everything that happens is something I can learn from.
-She suspected it was not just a long string of failures that made these children pessimistic, but rather their core beliefs about success and learning.
-They learned to interpret failure as a cue to try harder rather than as confirmation that they lacked the ability to succeed.
-People develop theories about themselves and the world, and it determines what they do.
-When you have setbacks and failures, you can't overreact to them. You need to step back, analyze them, and learn from them. But you also need to stay optimistic.
-Keep working hard and learning, and it will all work out.
-If you experience adversity that you overcome on your own during your youth, you develop a different way of dealing with adversity later on.
-Intelligence, or any other talent, can improve with effort. The brain changes itself when you struggle to master a new challenge.
-Rhonda eventually earned a PhD in mathematics and, after seventy-nine of her eighty applications for a faculty position were rejected, she took a job at the single university that made her an offer.
-You actually develop the ability to do mathematics. Don't give up!
Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes IV.
-The ten thousand hour rule and the then year rule.
-It is not that experts log more hours of practice. Rather, it's that experts practice differently.
-You are not improving because you are not doing deliberate practice.
-Experts strive to improve specific weaknesses.
-Many experts choose to strive while nobody is watching. The amount of time musicians devote to practicing alone is a much better predictor of how quickly they develop than time spent practicing with other musicians.
-What about reading for fun? Nada. There was not even a hint of a relationship between reading for fun, which they all enjoyed, and spelling prowess.
-Deliberate practice is experienced as supremely effortful.
-Deliberate practice is for preparation, and flow is for performance.
-Basic requirements of deliberate practice:
1. A clearly defined stretch goal.
2. Full concentration and effort.
3. Immediate and informative feedback.
4. Repetition with reflection and refinement.
-It's not hours of brute-force exhaustion you are after. It is high-quality, thoughtful training goals pursued, for just a few hours a day, tops.
-Trying to do things they cannot yet do, failing, and learning what they need to do differently is exactly they way experts practice.
-Focus on your weaknesses and focus one hundred per cent.
-Routines are godsend when it comes to doing something hard.
-When you have a habit of practicing at the same time and in the same place every day, you hardly have to think about getting started. You just do.
-It is not that experts log more hours of practice. Rather, it's that experts practice differently.
-You are not improving because you are not doing deliberate practice.
-Experts strive to improve specific weaknesses.
-Many experts choose to strive while nobody is watching. The amount of time musicians devote to practicing alone is a much better predictor of how quickly they develop than time spent practicing with other musicians.
-What about reading for fun? Nada. There was not even a hint of a relationship between reading for fun, which they all enjoyed, and spelling prowess.
-Deliberate practice is experienced as supremely effortful.
-Deliberate practice is for preparation, and flow is for performance.
-Basic requirements of deliberate practice:
1. A clearly defined stretch goal.
2. Full concentration and effort.
3. Immediate and informative feedback.
4. Repetition with reflection and refinement.
-It's not hours of brute-force exhaustion you are after. It is high-quality, thoughtful training goals pursued, for just a few hours a day, tops.
-Trying to do things they cannot yet do, failing, and learning what they need to do differently is exactly they way experts practice.
-Focus on your weaknesses and focus one hundred per cent.
-Routines are godsend when it comes to doing something hard.
-When you have a habit of practicing at the same time and in the same place every day, you hardly have to think about getting started. You just do.
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Friday, September 15, 2017
Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes III
-Improvise, adapt, overcome. Green Berets motto.
-On any long journey, detours are to be expected.
-Every human trait is influenced by both genes and experience.
-Against intuition, talents are not entirely genetic: the rate at which we develop any skill is also, crucially, a function of experience.
-She learns to do what she needs to do.
-Lectures don't have half the effect of consequences.
-We get grittier as we get older.
-The psychological assets that mature paragons of grit have in common: interest; practice; purpose; and hope.
-Within the last decade or so, scientists who study interests have arrived at a definitive answer. First, research shows that people are enormously more satisfied with their jobs when they do something that fits personal interests. Second, people perform better at work when what they do interests them.
-Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening.
-Interests are not discovered by introspection, but by the interaction with the outside world.
-The grittier an individual is, the fewer career changes they're likely to make.
-If you would like to follow your passion but haven't yet fostered one, you must begin at the beginning: discovery. Ask yourself a few simple questions:
1. What do I like to think about?
2. Where does my mind wander?
3. What do I really care about?
4. What matters most to me?
5. How do I enjoy spending my time?
6. In contrast, what do I find absolutely unbearable?
-Grit is not just about quantity of time devoted to interests, but also quality of time. Not just more time on task, but also better time on task.
-On any long journey, detours are to be expected.
-Every human trait is influenced by both genes and experience.
-Against intuition, talents are not entirely genetic: the rate at which we develop any skill is also, crucially, a function of experience.
-She learns to do what she needs to do.
-Lectures don't have half the effect of consequences.
-We get grittier as we get older.
-The psychological assets that mature paragons of grit have in common: interest; practice; purpose; and hope.
-Within the last decade or so, scientists who study interests have arrived at a definitive answer. First, research shows that people are enormously more satisfied with their jobs when they do something that fits personal interests. Second, people perform better at work when what they do interests them.
-Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening.
-Interests are not discovered by introspection, but by the interaction with the outside world.
-The grittier an individual is, the fewer career changes they're likely to make.
-If you would like to follow your passion but haven't yet fostered one, you must begin at the beginning: discovery. Ask yourself a few simple questions:
1. What do I like to think about?
2. Where does my mind wander?
3. What do I really care about?
4. What matters most to me?
5. How do I enjoy spending my time?
6. In contrast, what do I find absolutely unbearable?
-Grit is not just about quantity of time devoted to interests, but also quality of time. Not just more time on task, but also better time on task.
Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes II
Nietzsche. -No one can see in the work of the artist how it has become.
-Talent is how quickly your skills improve when you invest effort. Achievement is what happens when you take your acquired skills and use them.
-Eighty per cent of success in life is showing up.
-When you don't come back the next day, when you permanently turn your back on a commitment, your effort plummets to zero.
-Consistency of effort over the long run is everything.
-With effort, talent becomes skill and, at the very same time,effort makes skill productive.
-Do you have a life philosophy?
-Do things better than they have ever been done before.
-The pivotal moment came at a low point in his coaching career: just after getting fired as a head coach of the New England Patriots: Pete did a lot of thinking and reflecting. At the same time he was devouring the books of John Wooden.
-Though a team has to do a million things well, figuring out the overarching vision is of utmost importance.
-A clear, well-defined philosophy gives you the guidelines and boundaries that keep you on track.
-Why do you care about being punctual? Because being punctual shows respect for the people with whom you work. Why is that important? Because you strive to be a good leader.
-You are not capricious.
-Morally, there was not right decision, only a decision that was right for me.
-The gritty person will be disappointed, or even heartbroken, but not for long.
-Talent is how quickly your skills improve when you invest effort. Achievement is what happens when you take your acquired skills and use them.
-Eighty per cent of success in life is showing up.
-When you don't come back the next day, when you permanently turn your back on a commitment, your effort plummets to zero.
-Consistency of effort over the long run is everything.
-With effort, talent becomes skill and, at the very same time,effort makes skill productive.
-Do you have a life philosophy?
-Do things better than they have ever been done before.
-The pivotal moment came at a low point in his coaching career: just after getting fired as a head coach of the New England Patriots: Pete did a lot of thinking and reflecting. At the same time he was devouring the books of John Wooden.
-Though a team has to do a million things well, figuring out the overarching vision is of utmost importance.
-A clear, well-defined philosophy gives you the guidelines and boundaries that keep you on track.
-Why do you care about being punctual? Because being punctual shows respect for the people with whom you work. Why is that important? Because you strive to be a good leader.
-You are not capricious.
-Morally, there was not right decision, only a decision that was right for me.
-The gritty person will be disappointed, or even heartbroken, but not for long.
Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes
-What we eventually accomplish may depend more on our passion and perseverance than on our innate talent.
-I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I'll strive to be the grittiest.
-In the long run, grit may matter more than talent.
-Grit is mutable, not fixed.
-Who are the people at the very top of your field? What are they like? What do you think makes them special?
-High achievers were constantly driven to improve: they were never good enough; they were the opposite of complacent; and yet in a very real sense they were satisfied being unsatisfied. Each was chasing something of unparalleled importance, and it was the chase, as much as the capture, that was gratifying. Even if some of the things that they had to do were boring, or frustrating, or even painful, they would not dream of giving up. Their passion was enduring.
-Talent is not guarantee of grit.
-Grittier adults were more likely to get further in their formal schooling.
-Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is white another.
-Some of the students I expected to excel, because math came so easy to them, did worse than their classmates. On the other hand, some of my hardest workers were consistently my highest performers on tests and quizzes.
-Darwin: zeal and hard work are ultimately more important than intellectual ability.
-Focus on talent distracts us from something that is at least as important, and that is effort.
-High level of performance is, in fact, an accretion of mundane acts.
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-I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I'll strive to be the grittiest.
-In the long run, grit may matter more than talent.
-Grit is mutable, not fixed.
-Who are the people at the very top of your field? What are they like? What do you think makes them special?
-High achievers were constantly driven to improve: they were never good enough; they were the opposite of complacent; and yet in a very real sense they were satisfied being unsatisfied. Each was chasing something of unparalleled importance, and it was the chase, as much as the capture, that was gratifying. Even if some of the things that they had to do were boring, or frustrating, or even painful, they would not dream of giving up. Their passion was enduring.
-Talent is not guarantee of grit.
-Grittier adults were more likely to get further in their formal schooling.
-Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is white another.
-Some of the students I expected to excel, because math came so easy to them, did worse than their classmates. On the other hand, some of my hardest workers were consistently my highest performers on tests and quizzes.
-Darwin: zeal and hard work are ultimately more important than intellectual ability.
-Focus on talent distracts us from something that is at least as important, and that is effort.
-High level of performance is, in fact, an accretion of mundane acts.
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Friday, September 1, 2017
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