- by Daniel Coyle
❐ The Talent Code
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- > Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- > If I skip practice for one day, I notice. If I skip practice for two days, my wife notices. If I skip for three days, the world notices.
- ~ 90% of skill variation can be predicted by answers about practice planning
- ~ always chunk up learning content
- ~ chunk by literally cutting the lesson into pieces
- ~ give people profiles about mathematicians who share their birthdays, and they get motivated to do math
- ~ give praise only when deserved, not always
- ~ long-term commitment massively boosts learning success
- ~ savants tend to excel in narrow domains with logical rules
- ~ skills where precision and consistency matter most need coaching
- ~ the best teachers adapt their style to their students
- ~ you don't learn by gliding
- ~ you only see self-taught people with world-class skill in areas where coaching is intrinsically not needed