Continuously seek improvement from "summary" of The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle
To get better, you need a better plan. To improve, you need to follow a few simple principles. First, you must operate at the edge of your ability, where you make mistakes and correct them. Second, you must operate in short, intense sessions, not long, gray afternoons of low-level repetition. Third, you must stay in the sweet spot, that productive zone located just beyond your current abilities, where you're engaged and making errors, but not so many that you're discouraged. The key to improvement is building a better circuit. Every time you perform a skill, you are physically remodeling your brain to become better at it. This means that every rep is a building block, every rep is a brushstroke on the painting of your skill. When you practice a skill, you're firing a signal down a wire, a circuit that connects the neurons. The thicker the wire, the quicker and stronger the signal. Each rep, each circuit, makes the wire thic...
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