Learning & Mastery

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Austin Kleon · 2014

Show Your Work!

Do not wait to be discovered; become useful in public.

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Adam Grant · 2023

Hidden Potential

The people who go furthest are not always the people who start ahead; they are the ones who get better at getting better.

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Sonke Ahrens · 2017

How to Take Smart Notes

The point of notes is not to store thoughts. It is to give future thoughts somewhere intelligent to land.

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George Leonard · 1991

Mastery

The plateau is not where mastery pauses. It is where mastery is quietly made.

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Robert Greene · 2012

Mastery

Mastery is not an event. It is the moment your nature, discipline, and years of hidden work finally speak with one voice.

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Joshua Foer · 2011

Moonwalking with Einstein

Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character.

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Stephen King · 2000

On Writing

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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Adam M. Grant · 2021

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

The mark of intelligence is not defending a belief forever. It is knowing when the belief has stopped earning its place.

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K. Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool · 2016

Peak

Practice becomes powerful when it stops proving you are talented and starts showing you exactly what to fix next.

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David Epstein · 2019

Range

The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.

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Cal Newport · 2012

So Good They Can't Ignore You

The work you love is usually built after you become useful enough to earn better choices.

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Josh Waitzkin · 2007

The Art of Learning

The obstacle is not separate from the path; it is the most honest teacher in the room.

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990

Flow

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

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W. Timothy Gallwey · 1974

The Inner Game of Tennis

The quieter the instruction becomes, the more clearly the body can answer.

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Barbara Oakley · 2014

A Mind for Numbers

Technical mastery is not a gift. It is a loop: focus, release, retrieve, and return.

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Tiago Forte · 2022

Building a Second Brain

A note is only valuable when it can return at the moment of use.

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Rick Rubin · 2023

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Attention becomes the studio before the work becomes visible.

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Daniel Coyle · 2009

The Talent Code

Talent is not a lightning strike. It is the record of circuits made stronger by the right kind of struggle.

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Scott H. Young · 2019

Ultralearning

The fastest education is the one designed around reality instead of permission.

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Cal Newport · 2006

How to Become a Straight-A Student

Grades improve when studying becomes a system instead of a mood.

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Geoff Colvin · 2008

Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

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Jennifer Shahade

Thinking Sideways: How to Think Like a Chess Player and Win at Life

The point is not to predict every move. It is to see the board from a square your fear forgot to check.

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Rosie Nguyễn · 2016

Tuổi Trẻ Đáng Giá Bao Nhiêu

Youth becomes valuable when curiosity becomes practice.

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Tina Seelig · 2009

What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20

Opportunity is often a problem wearing a bad costume.