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The little book of talent - Coggle Diagram
The little book of talent
Part 1. Getting started
Tip 1. Stare at who you want to become
Tip 2. Spend fifteen minutes a day engraving the skill on your brain
Tip 3. Steal without apology
Tip 4. Buy a notebook
Tip 5. Be willing to be stupid
Tip 6. Choose spartan over luxurious
Tip 7. Before you start, figure out if it's a hard skill of a soft skill
Tip 8. To build hard skills, work like a careful carpenter
Tip 9. To build soft skills, play like a skateboarder
Tip 10. Honor the hard skills
Tip 11. Don't fall for the prodigy myth
Tip 12. Five ways to pick a high-quality teacher or coach
Part 2. Improving skills
Tip 13. Find the sweet spot
Tip 14. Take off your watch
Tip 15. Break every move down into chunks
Tip 16. Each day, try to build one perfect chunk
Tip 17. Embrace struggle
Tip 18. Choose five minutes a day over an hour a week
Tip 19. Don't do "Drills" instead, play small, addictive games
Tip 20. Practice alone
Tip 21. Think in images
Tip 22. Pay attention immediately after you made a mistake
Tip 23. Visualize the wires of you brain forming new connections
Tip 24. Visualize the wires of your brain getting faster
Tip 25. Shrink the space
Tip 26. Slow it down (Even slower than you think)
Tip 27. Close your eyes
Tip 28. Mime it
Tip 29. When you get it right, mark the spot
Tip 30. Take a nap
Tip 31. To learn a new move, exaggerate it
Tip 32. Make positive reaches
Tip 33. To learn from a book, close the book
Tip 34. Use the sandwitch technique
Tip 35. Use the 3X10 technique
Tip 36. Invent daily tests
Tip 37. To choose the best practice method, use the R.E.P.S. gauge
Tip 38. Stop before you're exhausted
Tip 39. Practice immediately after performance
Tip 40. Just before sleep, watch a mental movie
Tip 41. End on a positive note
Tip 42. Six ways to be a better teacher or coach
Part 3. Sustaining progress
Tip 43. Embrace repetition
Tip 44. Have a blue collar mind-set
Tip 45. For every hour of competition, spend five hours practicing
Tip 46. Don't waste time trying to break bad habits - instead build new one
Tip 47. To learn it more deeply, teach it
Tip 48. Give a new skill a minimum of eight weeks
Tip 49. When you get stuck, make a shift
Tip 50. Cultivate your grit
Tip 51. Keep your big goals secret
Tip 52. "Think like a gardener, work like a carpenter"